Hidden inside repo sit pore, repo, and rope, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 16 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pore, repo, and rope tie for the highest Scrabble score from repo at 6 points. The top 10 of 16 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 four-letter words hiding in repo: two come from rearranging its letters, and repo itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rope. For points, the strongest plays are pore, repo, and rope — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling repo turns up 6 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with per, pro, and rep. For points, the strongest plays are ope, per, pro, and rep — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repo. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
35 five-letter words can be made using all the letters in repo plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in repo and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
repo 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
repo is one of three four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing repo unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pore, repo, and rope, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from repo 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 repo produce 16 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 four-letter words, 6 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.