Hidden inside repining sit repining and ripening, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 72 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
repining and ripening tie for the highest Scrabble score from repining at 11 points. The top 10 of 72 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in repining: one comes from rearranging its letters, and repining 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 repining and ripening, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in repining produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is peining, 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 repining turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pieing, pinger, pining, and riping, 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 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repining. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genii and inner. For points, the strongest plays are genip, gripe, and piing — 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 repining produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grip, nine, and ring. 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 repining turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pen, per, pie, pig, pin, rep, and rig. 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repining. 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in repining plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in repining 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.
repining 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
repining is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing repining unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are repining and ripening, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from repining 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 repining produce 72 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.