Hidden inside repeaters sit repartees, repeaters, and rerepeats, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 285 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
repartees, repeaters, and rerepeats tie for the highest Scrabble score from repeaters at 11 points. The top 10 of 285 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in repeaters: two come from rearranging its letters, and repeaters itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are repartees, repeaters, and rerepeats, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repeaters. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pesterer, repartee, repeater and 2 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in repeaters produces 15 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with repeats. For points, 11 words tie at 9 points, including repeats, epaters and parters.
Unscrambling repeaters turns up 45 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, easter and rarest. For points, 25 words tie at 8 points, including repeat, sparer and epater.
There are 79 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repeaters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erase, parts and rates. For points, 49 words tie at 7 points, including parts, spare and strap.
Rearranging the letters in repeaters produces 78 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, arts and ears. For points, 40 words tie at 6 points, including apes, part and past.
Unscrambling repeaters turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and art. For points, 17 words tie at 5 points, including ape, pea and pee.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repeaters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in repeaters plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in repeaters and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
repeaters 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 four senses for repeaters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
repeaters is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing repeaters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are repartees, repeaters, and rerepeats, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from repeaters 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 repeaters produce 285 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 15 seven-letter words, 45 six-letter words, 79 five-letter words, 78 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.