repugnant needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 256 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
repugnant is the highest-scoring word from repugnant, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 256 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in repugnant — and it is repugnant itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling repugnant produces exactly one eight-letter word: pregnant. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in repugnant produces 6 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pungent and trepang, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling repugnant turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nature, parent, peanut, and urgent. For points, the strongest plays are pangen, parget, penang, and repugn — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repugnant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, anger, argue, grant, grape, great, and range. For points, the strongest plays are gaper, getup, grape, pager, parge, prang, purge, and unpeg — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in repugnant produces 80 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunt, earn, gate, near, neat, page, and part. For points, the strongest plays are gape, page, pang, peag, and pung — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling repugnant turns up 74 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ant, ape, are, art, ate, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are gap, peg, and pug — 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repugnant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, and up. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in repugnant plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in repugnant 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.
repugnant 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 5-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 repugnant. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
repugnant is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing repugnant unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is repugnant, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from repugnant 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 repugnant produce 256 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 80 four-letter words, 74 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.