responses needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 185 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
responses is the highest-scoring word from responses, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 185 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in responses — and it is responses itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in responses. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: espresso and response, worth 10 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in responses produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with openers, persons, and presses. For points, the strongest plays are openers, pereons, persons, presses, prosses, reopens, reposes, and spenses — 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 responses turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with opener, person, and senses. For points, the strongest plays are eposes, opener, peones, pereon, perses, person, posers, posses, preens, prones, proses, reopen, repose, sepses, speers, spense, spores, and sprees — 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 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in responses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with noses, opens, penes, porns, poses, press, and ropes. For points, the strongest plays are neeps, opens, peens, peers, penes, peons, peres, perse, pesos, pones, pores, porns, poser, poses, posse, preen, prees, prese, press, prone, prose, pross, repos, ropes, seeps, speer, spore, and spree — 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 responses produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nope, nose, ones, open, pees, pens, and porn. For points, the strongest plays are epos, neep, nope, open, opes, peen, peer, pees, pens, peon, pere, peso, pone, pons, pore, porn, pose, pree, pros, repo, reps, rope, seep, seps, and sops — 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 responses turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nor, one, pee, pen, per, pro, and rep. For points, the strongest plays are ope, ops, pee, pen, per, pes, pos, pro, rep, and sop — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in responses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are op, 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.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in responses plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in responses 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.
responses 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.
Dictionaries record seven senses for responses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
responses is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing responses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is responses, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from responses 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 responses produce 185 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.