Hidden inside reprieval sit prevailer and reprieval, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 218 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
prevailer and reprieval tie for the highest Scrabble score from reprieval at 14 points. The top 10 of 218 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in reprieval: one comes from rearranging its letters, and reprieval 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 prevailer and reprieval, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling reprieval produces exactly one eight-letter word: pearlier. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in reprieval produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earlier. For points, the strongest plays are pervier, preaver, and prevail — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling reprieval turns up 33 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrive, eviler, repair, and reveal. For points, the strongest plays are pareve and repave — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 42 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reprieval. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alive, leave and liver. For points, the strongest plays are parve, paver, vaper, and viper — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in reprieval produces 75 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ever, evil and leap. For points, the strongest plays are pave, perv, vape, and veep — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling reprieval turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ape and are. For points, 9 words tie at 6 points, including eve, ave and lav.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reprieval. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pa, pe, and pi, each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in reprieval plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in reprieval 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.
reprieval 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
reprieval is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing reprieval unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are prevailer and reprieval, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from reprieval 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 reprieval produce 218 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, 33 six-letter words, 42 five-letter words, 75 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.