Hidden inside repousse sit espouser and repousse, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 176 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
espouser and repousse tie for the highest Scrabble score from repousse at 10 points. The top 10 of 176 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in repousse: one comes from rearranging its letters, and repousse 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 espouser and repousse, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in repousse produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are espouse, peruses, poseurs, and reposes, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling repousse turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with purses. For points, 18 words tie at 8 points, including purses, eposes and opuses.
There are 48 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repousse. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poses, pours and press. For points, 31 words tie at 7 points, including poses, pours and press.
Rearranging the letters in repousse produces 53 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ours, pees and pose. For points, 28 words tie at 6 points, including pees, pose and pour.
Unscrambling repousse turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with our, pee and per. For points, 15 words tie at 5 points, including pee, per and pro.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repousse. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, so, up, and us. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, po, and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
7 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in repousse plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in repousse 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.
repousse 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.
repousse is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing repousse unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are espouser and repousse, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from repousse 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 repousse produce 176 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 48 five-letter words, 53 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.