repulses needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 150 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
repulses is the highest-scoring word from repulses, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 150 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in repulses — and it is repulses itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in repulses produces 3 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 peruses, pulsers, and repulse, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling repulses turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with purses and sleeps. For points, 18 words tie at 8 points, including purses, sleeps and lepers.
There are 44 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repulses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lures, peels and press. For points, 29 words tie at 7 points, including peels, press and purse.
Rearranging the letters in repulses produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, less and lure. For points, 21 words tie at 6 points, including peel, pees and plus.
Unscrambling repulses turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pee, per and rep. For points, 10 words tie at 5 points, including pee, per and rep.
7 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in repulses plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in repulses and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
repulses 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 repulses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
repulses is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing repulses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is repulses, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from repulses 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 repulses produce 150 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 44 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.