reprieves needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 150 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
reprieves is the highest-scoring word from reprieves, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 150 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in reprieves — and it is reprieves itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reprieves. If a familiar word is all you need, start with preserve. For points, the strongest plays are perverse, preserve, 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 reprieves produces 17 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 and previse — 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 reprieves turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rivers 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 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reprieves. If a familiar word is all you need, start with river and serve. For points, the strongest plays are peeve, pervs, 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 reprieves produces 33 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 reprieves turns up 27 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 reprieves. 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.
6 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in reprieves plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in reprieves 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.
reprieves 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 six senses for reprieves. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
reprieves is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing reprieves unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is reprieves, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from reprieves 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 reprieves produce 150 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.