repressive needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 220 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
repressive is the highest-scoring word from repressive, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 220 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in repressive — and it is repressive itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling repressive turns up 3 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with preserves. For points, the strongest plays are preserves and reprieves — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repressive. If a familiar word is all you need, start with preserve, reserves, and reverses. For points, the strongest plays are perverse, preserve, previses, and reprieve — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in repressive produces 27 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reserve, reverse, and severer. For points, the strongest plays are pervier, previse, and vespers — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling repressive turns up 42 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rivers, series, serves, and severe. For points, the strongest plays are peeves, vesper, and vipers — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 54 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repressive. If a familiar word is all you need, start with press, rises, river, serve, and spies. For points, the strongest plays are peeve, pervs, spivs, veeps, and viper — 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 repressive produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ever, eves, pees, pies, reps, rips, and rise. For points, the strongest plays are perv, spiv, and veep — 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 repressive turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve, pee, per, pie, rep, rip, and see. For points, the strongest plays are eve, rev, sev, vee, vie, and vis — each worth 6 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 repressive. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is. 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.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in repressive plus one additional letter.
repressive 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 one sense for repressive. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
repressive is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing repressive unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is repressive, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from repressive 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 repressive produce 220 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 12 eight-letter words, 27 seven-letter words, 42 six-letter words, 54 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.