Hidden inside requites sit quieters and requites, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 126 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
quieters and requites tie for the highest Scrabble score from requites at 17 points. The top 10 of 126 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in requites: one comes from rearranging its letters, and requites itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are quieters and requites, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in requites produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with quieter and request. For points, the strongest plays are equites, esquire, queries, querist, quester, quieter, request, and requite — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling requites turns up 11 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are queers, quiets, quires, quirts, risque, squire, and squirt, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in requites. If a familiar word is all you need, start with queer, quest, quiet, quite, quits, steer, and suite. For points, the strongest plays are eques, queer, quest, quiet, quire, quirt, quite, and quits — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in requites produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with quit, rest, rise, site, stir, suit, and sure. For points, the strongest play is quit — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling requites turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, see, set, sir, sit, sue, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are qis and suq — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in requites. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, and us. For points, the strongest play is qi — worth 11 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 requites 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.
requites 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 requites. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
requites is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing requites unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are quieters and requites, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from requites 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 requites produce 126 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.