Hidden inside repented sit repented and repetend, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 92 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
repented and repetend tie for the highest Scrabble score from repented at 11 points. The top 10 of 92 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in repented: one comes from rearranging its letters, and repented itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are repented and repetend, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in repented produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entered and pretend. For points, the strongest plays are petered, preened, preneed, and pretend — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling repented turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deeper and rented. For points, the strongest plays are deepen, deeper, peened, and peered — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repented. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter. For points, the strongest play is preed — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in repented produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, deer and need. For points, the strongest plays are deep, peed, and pend — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling repented turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, net and pee. For points, the strongest plays are dep and ped — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repented. 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.
7 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in repented plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in repented and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
repented 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
repented is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing repented unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are repented and repetend, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from repented 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 repented produce 92 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.