Hidden inside repetition sit petitioner and repetition, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 255 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
petitioner and repetition tie for the highest Scrabble score from repetition at 12 points. The top 10 of 255 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in repetition: one comes from rearranging its letters, and repetition itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are petitioner and repetition, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repetition. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pointier. For points, the strongest plays are entrepot, petition, and pointier — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in repetition produces 21 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pettier. For points, the strongest plays are inepter, pereion, pettier, pioneer, pointer, portent, potteen, pottier, proette, protein, repoint, ripieno, treetop, and tropine — 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 repetition turns up 40 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entire, opener, rotten, and tinier. For points, the strongest plays are opener, orpine, pereon, periti, pernio, petite, petter, pinier, pinite, pitier, pointe, poteen, potent, potter, protei, pterin, reopen, repent, repine, tiepin, tinpot, tiptoe, and tropin — 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 52 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repetition. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, point, and print. For points, the strongest plays are inept, netop, opine, orpin, peter, petit, petti, petto, pinot, pinto, piton, pitot, point, porin, preen, print, prion, prone, repin, repot, ripen, topee, toper, tripe, and trope — 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 repetition produces 69 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with into, iron, nope, note, open, poet, and porn. For points, the strongest plays are neep, nope, open, peen, peer, pein, pent, peon, pere, peri, pert, pier, pine, pint, pion, pirn, poet, pone, pore, porn, port, pree, repo, ripe, rope, tipi, tope, topi, trip, and trop — 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 repetition turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with net, nor, not, one, pee, pen, and per. For points, the strongest plays are nip, ope, opt, pee, pen, per, pet, pie, pin, pit, poi, pot, pro, rep, rip, tip, and top — 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repetition. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, it, no, on, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in repetition plus one additional letter.
repetition 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.
Dictionaries record three senses for repetition. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
repetition is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing repetition unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are petitioner and repetition, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from repetition 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 repetition produce 255 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 21 seven-letter words, 40 six-letter words, 52 five-letter words, 69 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.