Hidden inside replacer sit preclear and replacer, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 128 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
preclear and replacer tie for the highest Scrabble score from replacer at 12 points. The top 10 of 128 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in replacer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and replacer 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 preclear and replacer, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in replacer produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clearer and replace. For points, the strongest plays are caperer, percale, prerace, and replace — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling replacer turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with career and cereal. For points, the strongest plays are carpel, carper, parcel, and placer — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in replacer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clear, peace, and place. For points, 9 words tie at 9 points, including peace, place and caper.
Rearranging the letters in replacer produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cape, care and clap. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including cape, clap and crap.
Unscrambling replacer turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and cap. For points, the strongest plays are cap, cep, pac, and pec — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in replacer. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pa and pe, each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in replacer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in replacer 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.
replacer 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
replacer is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing replacer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are preclear and replacer, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from replacer 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 replacer produce 128 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.