Hidden inside respond sit pernods, ponders, and respond, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 182 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble NESRPOD, DONSEPR or PERNDOS and you get the same 7 letters as RESPOND: so the words from RESPOND listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
pernods, ponders, and respond tie for the highest Scrabble score from respond at 10 points. The top 10 of 182 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in respond: two come from rearranging its letters, and respond itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with respond. For points, the strongest plays are pernods, ponders, and respond — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling respond turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with person. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including dopers, pedros and pernod.
There are 43 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in respond. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drops, nerds and opens. For points, 13 words tie at 8 points, including drops, ponds and posed.
Rearranging the letters in respond produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with does, done and drop. For points, 11 words tie at 7 points, including drop, pond and deps.
Unscrambling respond turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, nor and one. For points, the strongest plays are dep, ped, and pod — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in respond. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, no and on. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
10 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in respond plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in respond 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.
respond 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 three senses for respond. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
respond is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing respond unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pernods, ponders, and respond, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from respond 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 respond produce 182 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 43 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.