repellent needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 78 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
repellent is the highest-scoring word from repellent, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 78 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in repellent — and it is repellent itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in repellent produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are preteen, pretell, replete, and terpene, 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 repellent turns up 12 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are peeler, pellet, pelter, petrel, and repent, 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 repellent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter. For points, the strongest plays are leper, peter, preen, repel, and tepee — 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 repellent produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lent, peel, rent, teen, tell, and tree. For points, the strongest plays are epee, lept, neep, peel, peen, peer, pele, pelt, pent, pere, pert, and pree — 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 repellent turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with let, net, pee, pen, per, pet, and rep. For points, the strongest plays are pee, pen, per, pet, and rep — 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repellent. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is pe, worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in repellent plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in repellent 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.
repellent 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record six senses for repellent. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
repellent is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing repellent unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is repellent, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from repellent 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 repellent produce 78 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.