Hidden inside repays sit payers and repays, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 120 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
payers and repays tie for the highest Scrabble score from repays at 11 points. The top 10 of 120 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in repays: one comes from rearranging its letters, and repays itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are payers and repays, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repays. If a familiar word is all you need, start with prays, spare, spray, and years. For points, the strongest plays are apery, payer, prays, preys, pyres, raspy, repay, and spray — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in repays produces 44 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, ears, easy, eras, pays, peas, and pray. For points, the strongest plays are espy, pays, pray, prey, pyas, pyes, pyre, spay, spry, yaps, and yeps — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling repays turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, aye, ear, era, pay, and pea. For points, the strongest plays are pay, pry, pya, pye, spy, yap, and yep — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repays. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in repays and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
repays is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
Both totals match, because every tile in repays carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record four senses for repays. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
repays is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing repays unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are payers and repays, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from repays earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in repays produce 120 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 44 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.