Hidden inside repeat sit epater, repeat, and retape, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 72 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
epater, repeat, and retape tie for the highest Scrabble score from repeat at 8 points. The top 10 of 72 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in repeat: two come from rearranging its letters, and repeat itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with repeat. For points, the strongest plays are epater, repeat, and retape — 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 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repeat. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are apter, etape, pater, peart, perea, peter, prate, and taper, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in repeat produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with part, rate, tape, tear, trap, and tree. For points, the strongest plays are aper, pare, part, pate, pear, peat, peer, pere, pert, prat, pree, rape, rapt, reap, tape, tarp, tepa, and trap — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling repeat turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are ape, apt, par, pat, pea, pee, per, pet, rap, rep, and tap — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repeat. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — each worth 4 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 repeat 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.
repeat 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.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record seven senses for repeat. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
repeat is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing repeat unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are epater, repeat, and retape, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from repeat 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 repeat produce 72 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.