repulse needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 104 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
repulse is the highest-scoring word from repulse, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 104 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in repulse — and it is repulse itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling repulse turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lepers, peruse, pulers, pulser, purees, repels, and rupees, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repulse. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lures, peels, purse, rules, sleep, and super. For points, the strongest plays are leper, peels, peers, peles, peres, perse, prees, prese, puler, pules, pulse, puree, purls, purse, repel, rupee, sleep, slurp, speel, speer, spree, sprue, and super — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in repulse produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, lure, peel, pees, plus, pure, and reps. For points, the strongest plays are peel, peer, pees, pele, pere, plus, pree, pule, puls, pure, purl, purs, reps, seep, spue, spur, supe, and urps — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling repulse turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pee, per, rep, see, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are pee, per, pes, pul, pur, pus, rep, sup, ups, and urp — each worth 5 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 repulse. If a familiar word is all you need, start with up and us. For points, the strongest plays are 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.
Swap a single tile in repulse 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.
repulse 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for repulse. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
repulse is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing repulse unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is repulse, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from repulse 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 repulse produce 104 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 7 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.