Hidden inside respiting sit priesting and respiting, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 346 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
priesting and respiting tie for the highest Scrabble score from respiting at 12 points. The top 10 of 346 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in respiting: one comes from rearranging its letters, and respiting itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are priesting and respiting, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in respiting. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gripiest, speiring, spiering and 2 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in respiting produces 20 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with inspire and resting. For points, 7 words tie at 10 points, including peising, pieings and pingers.
Unscrambling respiting turns up 61 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pities, priest and prints. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including spring, genips and gripes.
There are 89 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in respiting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genii, grips and penis. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including grips, genip and gripe.
Rearranging the letters in respiting produces 92 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gets, grip and nest. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including grip, pigs and gips.
Unscrambling respiting turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with get, its and net. For points, the strongest plays are gip, peg, and pig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in respiting. 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.
7 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in respiting plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in respiting and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
respiting 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.
respiting is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing respiting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are priesting and respiting, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from respiting 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 respiting produce 346 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 20 seven-letter words, 61 six-letter words, 89 five-letter words, 92 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.