Hidden inside rephrases sit rephrases and reshapers, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 275 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
rephrases and reshapers tie for the highest Scrabble score from rephrases at 14 points. The top 10 of 275 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in rephrases: one comes from rearranging its letters, and rephrases itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are rephrases and reshapers, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rephrases. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are rephrase, reshaper, reshapes, and sharpers, 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 rephrases produces 30 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with phrases and sharper. For points, the strongest plays are apheses, harpers, heapers, phasers, phrases, reshape, seraphs, shapers, sharper, sherpas, spahees, and spheres — 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 rephrases turns up 52 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erases, herpes, phases, phrase, rashes, shapes, and shares. For points, the strongest plays are harper, heaper, herpes, pashes, phaser, phases, phrase, raphes, seraph, shaper, shapes, sharps, 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 65 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rephrases. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ashes, eases, erase, hears, phase, press, and shape. For points, the strongest plays are ephas, harps, hasps, 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 rephrases produces 65 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 rephrases turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, ash, ass, ear, era, and has. 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 rephrases. 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.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in rephrases plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in rephrases 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.
rephrases 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 rephrases carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for rephrases. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
rephrases is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rephrases unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are rephrases and reshapers, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rephrases 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 rephrases produce 275 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 30 seven-letter words, 52 six-letter words, 65 five-letter words, 65 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.