Hidden inside reprobate sit perborate and reprobate, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 231 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
perborate and reprobate tie for the highest Scrabble score from reprobate at 13 points. The top 10 of 231 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in reprobate: one comes from rearranging its letters, and reprobate 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 perborate and reprobate, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling reprobate produces exactly one eight-letter word: perorate. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in reprobate produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with operate. For points, the strongest plays are probate and reprobe — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling reprobate turns up 29 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with repeat and report. For points, the strongest play is prober — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 39 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reprobate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abort, barer, and opera. For points, the strongest plays are probe and rebop — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in reprobate produces 67 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bare, bear, beat, beer, boat, bore, and brat. For points, the strongest plays are beep and prob — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling reprobate turns up 64 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, art, ate, bar, bat, and bee. For points, the strongest plays are bap and bop — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reprobate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, be, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, bo, op, pa, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in reprobate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in reprobate 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.
reprobate 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 five senses for reprobate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
reprobate is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing reprobate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are perborate and reprobate, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from reprobate 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 reprobate produce 231 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 10 seven-letter words, 29 six-letter words, 39 five-letter words, 67 four-letter words, 64 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.