Hidden inside repeats sit epaters, repeats, and retapes, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 221 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble RETASEP, SPARETE or PREESTA and you get the same 7 letters as REPEATS: so the words from REPEATS listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
epaters, repeats, and retapes tie for the highest Scrabble score from repeats at 9 points. The top 10 of 221 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in repeats: two come from rearranging its letters, and repeats itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with repeats. For points, the strongest plays are epaters, repeats, and retapes — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling repeats turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easter and repeat. For points, 15 words tie at 8 points, including repeat, epater and etapes.
There are 66 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repeats. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erase, parts and rates. For points, 44 words tie at 7 points, including parts, spare and strap.
Rearranging the letters in repeats produces 73 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, arts and ears. For points, 38 words tie at 6 points, including apes, part and past.
Unscrambling repeats turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and art. For points, 17 words tie at 5 points, including ape, pea and pee.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repeats. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
22 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in repeats plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in repeats 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.
repeats 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 seven senses for repeats. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
repeats is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing repeats unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are epaters, repeats, and retapes, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from repeats 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 repeats produce 221 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 66 five-letter words, 73 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.