Hidden inside repressed sit derepress and repressed, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 106 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
derepress and repressed tie for the highest Scrabble score from repressed at 12 points. The top 10 of 106 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in repressed: one comes from rearranging its letters, and repressed itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are derepress and repressed, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling repressed produces exactly one eight-letter word: speeders. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in repressed produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dresser and pressed. For points, the strongest plays are depress, pressed, speeder, and speered — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling repressed turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deeper and speeds. For points, the strongest plays are deeper, peered, seeped, and speeds — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repressed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, dress and press. For points, the strongest plays are deeps, pedes, preed, and speed — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in repressed produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, deer and peed. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including deep, peed and deps.
Unscrambling repressed turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pee, per and red. For points, the strongest plays are dep and ped — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repressed. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is pe, worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in repressed plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in repressed 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.
repressed 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for repressed. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
repressed is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing repressed unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are derepress and repressed, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from repressed 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 repressed produce 106 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 11 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.