Hidden inside reprise sit perries, prisere, reprise and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 77 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
perries, prisere, reprise and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from reprise at 9 points. The top 10 of 77 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in reprise: three come from rearranging its letters, and reprise itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are perries, prisere, reprise, and respire, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reprise. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are peers, peise, peres and 15 more, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in reprise produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pees, pies and reps. For points, 12 words tie at 6 points, including pees, pies and reps.
Unscrambling reprise turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pee, per and pie. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including pee, per and pie.
23 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in reprise plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in reprise and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
reprise 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 reprise. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
reprise is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing reprise unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are perries, prisere, reprise, and respire, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from reprise 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 reprise produce 77 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.