Hidden inside repeating sit epatering and repeating, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 404 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
epatering and repeating tie for the highest Scrabble score from repeating at 12 points. The top 10 of 404 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in repeating: one comes from rearranging its letters, and repeating itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with repeating. For points, the strongest plays are epatering and repeating — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repeating. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are perigean, petering, retaping, and tapering, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in repeating produces 28 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tearing. For points, 7 words tie at 10 points, including epigean, parting and peering.
Unscrambling repeating turns up 60 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eating, entire and neater. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including peeing, taping and parget.
There are 93 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repeating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, agree and anger. For points, 11 words tie at 8 points, including grape, aping and gaper.
Rearranging the letters in repeating produces 112 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, gain and gate. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including grip, page and gape.
Unscrambling repeating turns up 81 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air and ant. For points, the strongest plays are gap, gip, peg, and pig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repeating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in repeating plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in repeating 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.
repeating 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for repeating. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
repeating is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing repeating unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are epatering and repeating, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from repeating 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 repeating produce 404 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 28 seven-letter words, 60 six-letter words, 93 five-letter words, 112 four-letter words, 81 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.