Hidden inside responsa sit personas and responsa, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 295 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
personas and responsa tie for the highest Scrabble score from responsa at 10 points. The top 10 of 295 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in responsa: one comes from rearranging its letters, and responsa 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 personas and responsa, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in responsa produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with persons and reasons. For points, the strongest plays are parsons, persona, persons, and soapers — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling responsa turns up 38 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with operas, person, reason, season, and spares. For points, the strongest plays are aprons, arpens, aspens, aspers, operas, paeons, parens, pareos, parses, parson, paseos, passer, person, posers, prases, prones, proses, repass, sapors, sneaps, soaper, spares, sparse, speans, spears, and spores — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 83 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in responsa. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns, noses, opens, opera, porns, poses, and press. For points, the strongest plays are apers, apres, apron, apses, arpen, aspen, asper, napes, neaps, opens, opera, paeon, panes, paren, pareo, pares, parse, paseo, pases, passe, peans, pears, peons, pesos, pones, pores, porns, poser, poses, posse, praos, prase, presa, press, proas, prone, prose, pross, psoae, psoas, rapes, rasps, reaps, repos, ropes, sapor, snaps, sneap, soaps, spaes, spans, spare, spars, spean, spear, and spore — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in responsa produces 91 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, naps, near, nope, nose, ones, and open. For points, the strongest plays are aper, apes, apos, apse, asps, nape, naps, neap, nope, opas, open, opes, pane, pans, pare, pars, pase, pass, pean, pear, peas, pens, peon, peso, pone, pons, pore, porn, pose, prao, proa, pros, rape, raps, rasp, reap, repo, reps, rope, saps, seps, snap, soap, sops, spae, span, spar, spas, and epos — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling responsa turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, ass, ear, era, nap, and nor. For points, the strongest plays are ape, apo, asp, nap, opa, ope, ops, pan, par, pas, pea, pen, per, pes, pos, pro, rap, rep, sap, sop, and spa — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in responsa. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, and po — each worth 4 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 responsa 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.
responsa 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
responsa is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing responsa unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are personas and responsa, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from responsa 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 responsa produce 295 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 38 six-letter words, 83 five-letter words, 91 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.