Hidden inside replasters sit plasterers and replasters, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 697 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
plasterers and replasters tie for the highest Scrabble score from replasters at 12 points. The top 10 of 697 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in replasters: one comes from rearranging its letters, and replasters itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are plasterers and replasters, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling replasters turns up 5 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are palterers, plasterer, prealters and 2 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 34 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in replasters. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are asperser, palterer, pearlers and 19 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in replasters produces 91 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrests, easters and relates. For points, 55 words tie at 9 points, including repeats, sparest and asperse.
Unscrambling replasters turns up 156 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters and arrest. For points, 81 words tie at 8 points, including asleep, plates and please.
There are 185 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in replasters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with parts, pasts and peels. For points, 92 words tie at 7 points, including parts, pasts and peels.
Rearranging the letters in replasters produces 143 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, arts and laps. For points, 60 words tie at 6 points, including apes, laps and leap.
Unscrambling replasters turns up 66 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and art. For points, 20 words tie at 5 points, including ape, lap and pal.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in replasters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in replasters plus one additional letter.
replasters 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
replasters is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing replasters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are plasterers and replasters, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from replasters 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 replasters produce 697 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 5 nine-letter words, 34 eight-letter words, 91 seven-letter words, 156 six-letter words, 185 five-letter words, 143 four-letter words, 66 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.