repelling needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 133 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
repelling is the highest-scoring word from repelling, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 133 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in repelling — and it is repelling itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in repelling produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with peeling. For points, the strongest plays are peeling, peering, and preeing — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling repelling turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with peeing. For points, the strongest plays are peeing and pinger — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repelling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with green and grill. For points, the strongest plays are genip, gripe, and repeg — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in repelling produces 44 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gene, girl, grip, line, peel, pile, and pill. For points, the strongest plays are grip, ping, and prig — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling repelling turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, ill, leg, lie, lip, pee, and pen. For points, the strongest plays are gip, peg, and pig — each worth 6 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 repelling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in. For points, the strongest plays are pe and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in repelling plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in repelling 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.
repelling 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 5-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 repelling. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
repelling is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing repelling unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is repelling, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from repelling 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 repelling produce 133 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 44 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.