Hidden inside respecting sit respecting and sceptering, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 644 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
respecting and sceptering tie for the highest Scrabble score from respecting at 15 points. The top 10 of 644 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in respecting: one comes from rearranging its letters, and respecting itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with respecting. For points, the strongest plays are respecting and sceptering — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling respecting turns up 8 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is sceptring, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 26 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in respecting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with percents, receipts, and steering. For points, the strongest plays are creeping and specting — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in respecting produces 65 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with centers, entries, genetic, percent, present, princes, and receipt. For points, the strongest play is creping — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling respecting turns up 133 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with center, creeps, enters, entire, greets, nicest, and nieces. For points, the strongest plays are creeps, crepes, cripes, incept, pecten, pectin, piecer, pieces, pierce, pincer, precis, prices, prince, recept, recipe, script, septic, specie, spence, spicer, and tricep — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 178 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in respecting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, cries, enter, genes, green, greet, and grips. For points, the strongest plays are cepes, creep, crepe, crept, cripe, crips, crisp, epics, pence, percs, piece, price, scrip, sepic, spect, and spice — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in respecting produces 140 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nest, nets, nice, pees, pens, pets, and pies. For points, the strongest plays are pecs, perc, pice, pics, spec, cepe, ceps, crip, and epic — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling respecting turns up 77 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, get, ice, its, net, pee, and pen. For points, the strongest plays are cep, pec, and pic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in respecting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are pe and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in respecting plus one additional letter.
respecting 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
respecting is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing respecting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are respecting and sceptering, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from respecting 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 respecting produce 644 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 8 nine-letter words, 26 eight-letter words, 65 seven-letter words, 133 six-letter words, 178 five-letter words, 140 four-letter words, 77 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.