reprisals needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 410 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
reprisals is the highest-scoring word from reprisals, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 410 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in reprisals — and it is reprisals itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reprisals. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aspirers, praisers, and reprisal, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in reprisals produces 35 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with praises and repairs. For points, 25 words tie at 9 points, including praises, repairs and aspirer.
Unscrambling reprisals turns up 71 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisles, lasers and praise. For points, 50 words tie at 8 points, including praise, repair and sparer.
There are 119 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reprisals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, laser and leaps. For points, 72 words tie at 7 points, including leaps, pairs and piles.
Rearranging the letters in reprisals produces 109 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, apes and laps. For points, 52 words tie at 6 points, including apes, laps and leap.
Unscrambling reprisals turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ape and are. For points, 21 words tie at 5 points, including ape, lap and lip.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reprisals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and is. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in reprisals 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.
reprisals 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 reprisals. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
reprisals is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing reprisals unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is reprisals, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from reprisals 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 reprisals produce 410 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 35 seven-letter words, 71 six-letter words, 119 five-letter words, 109 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.