Hidden inside replacing sit parceling and replacing, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 439 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
parceling and replacing tie for the highest Scrabble score from replacing at 14 points. The top 10 of 439 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in replacing: one comes from rearranging its letters, and replacing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with replacing. For points, the strongest plays are parceling and replacing — 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 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in replacing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clearing. For points, the strongest play is capering — 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 replacing produces 39 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with leaping, placing, and plainer. For points, the strongest plays are carping, cleping, craping, creping, peacing, pelagic, and placing — 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 replacing turns up 61 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caring, garlic, pencil, prince, and racing. For points, the strongest plays are caping, gelcap, and pacing — 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 103 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in replacing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alien, angel, anger, angle, cigar, clean, and clear. For points, the strongest plays are caper, capri, carpi, crape, cripe, pacer, panic, pecan, pical, place, plica, price, and recap — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in replacing produces 132 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lane, lean, leap, liar, lice, line, and nail. For points, the strongest plays are pace, perc, pica, pice, cape, carp, clap, clip, crap, crip, and epic — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling replacing turns up 78 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, ape, are, can, cap, and car. For points, the strongest plays are cap, cep, pac, pec, and pic — each worth 7 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 replacing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and in. For points, the strongest plays are pa, 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.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in replacing plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in replacing 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.
replacing 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 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for replacing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
replacing is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing replacing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are parceling and replacing, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from replacing 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 replacing produce 439 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 39 seven-letter words, 61 six-letter words, 103 five-letter words, 132 four-letter words, 78 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.