Hidden inside rephrase sit rephrase and reshaper, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 187 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
rephrase and reshaper tie for the highest Scrabble score from rephrase at 13 points. The top 10 of 187 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in rephrase: one comes from rearranging its letters, and rephrase 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 rephrase and reshaper, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in rephrase produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sharper. For points, the strongest plays are harpers, heapers, reshape, and sharper — 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.
Unscrambling rephrase turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with herpes, phrase, and sparer. For points, the strongest plays are harper, heaper, herpes, phaser, phrase, raphes, seraph, shaper, sherpa, spahee, and sphere — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 46 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rephrase. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erase, hears, phase, shape, share, sharp, and sheep. For points, the strongest plays are ephas, harps, heaps, phase, raphe, shape, sharp, and sheep — 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 rephrase produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, ears, ease, eras, hear, here, and hers. For points, the strongest plays are epha, haps, harp, hasp, heap, heps, pash, and pehs — 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 rephrase turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, ash, ear, era, has, and her. For points, the strongest plays are hap, hep, pah, and peh — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rephrase. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, eh, ha, he, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in rephrase 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.
rephrase 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in rephrase carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for rephrase. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
rephrase is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rephrase unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are rephrase and reshaper, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rephrase 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 rephrase produce 187 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 46 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.