Hidden inside reprints sit printers, reprints, and sprinter, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 212 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
printers, reprints, and sprinter tie for the highest Scrabble score from reprints at 10 points. The top 10 of 212 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in reprints: two come from rearranging its letters, and reprints itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with printers. For points, the strongest plays are printers, reprints, and sprinter — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in reprints produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with printer. For points, the strongest plays are printer, pterins, reprint, and striper — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling reprints turns up 30 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with priest, prints, and stripe. For points, the strongest plays are esprit, instep, priers, priest, prints, pterin, repins, ripens, ripest, sitrep, sniper, spinet, sprent, sprier, sprint, sprite, stripe, and tripes — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 62 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reprints. If a familiar word is all you need, start with penis, print, rents, risen, siren, spent, and spine. For points, the strongest plays are inept, peins, penis, peris, piers, pines, pints, pirns, piste, prest, prier, pries, print, prise, repin, ripen, riper, ripes, snipe, speir, spent, spier, spine, spire, spirt, spite, sprit, stipe, stirp, strep, strip, tripe, and trips — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in reprints produces 57 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nest, nets, pens, pets, pies, pins, and pits. For points, the strongest plays are nips, pein, pens, pent, peri, pert, pest, pets, pier, pies, pine, pins, pint, pirn, pits, reps, ripe, rips, sept, sipe, snip, spin, spit, step, tips, and trip — 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 reprints turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, net, pen, per, pet, pie, and pin. For points, the strongest plays are nip, pen, per, pes, pet, pie, pin, pis, pit, psi, pst, rep, rip, sip, and tip — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reprints. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and it. 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.
Swap a single tile in reprints 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.
reprints 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.
Dictionaries record three senses for reprints. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
reprints is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing reprints unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are printers, reprints, and sprinter, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from reprints 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 reprints produce 212 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 30 six-letter words, 62 five-letter words, 57 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.