Hidden inside ripostes sit prosiest, prosties, reposits and 2 others, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 343 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
prosiest, prosties, reposits and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from ripostes at 10 points. The top 10 of 343 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 eight-letter words hiding in ripostes: four come from rearranging its letters, and ripostes 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 prosiest, prosties, reposits, ripostes, and triposes, 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 ripostes produces 30 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with posters, priests, stories, and stripes. For points, the strongest plays are espoirs, esprits, persist, poisers, posiest, posters, posties, potsies, prestos, priests, prossie, prostie, reposit, reposts, respots, riposte, riposts, ropiest, sitreps, sopites, spriest, sprites, stirpes, stopers, and stripes — 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 ripostes turns up 70 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poster, priest, resist, sister, sorest, sports, and stores. For points, the strongest plays are espoir, esprit, estops, pestos, pisser, pistes, poiser, poises, posers, posier, posies, posits, posset, poster, postie, potsie, presto, prests, priest, prises, proses, prosit, protei, ptoses, ptosis, repost, repots, respot, ripest, ripost, sitrep, sopite, speirs, spiers, spires, spirts, spites, spores, sports, sprite, sprits, stipes, stirps, stoper, stopes, streps, stripe, strips, strops, topers, tripes, tripos, and tropes — 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 84 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ripostes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poets, poses, posts, press, rests, riots, and rises. For points, the strongest plays are estop, peris, pesos, pesto, pests, piers, pisos, piste, poets, poise, pores, ports, poser, poses, posit, posse, posts, press, prest, pries, prise, priss, prose, pross, prost, repos, repot, ripes, ropes, septs, sipes, speir, spier, spies, spire, spirt, spite, spits, spore, sport, spots, sprit, steps, stipe, stirp, stope, stops, strep, strip, strop, toper, topes, topis, tripe, trips, and trope — 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 ripostes produces 85 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pets, pies, pits, poet, pose, post, and pots. For points, the strongest plays are epos, opes, opts, peri, pert, peso, pest, pets, pier, pies, piso, piss, pits, poet, pois, pore, port, pose, post, pots, pros, psis, psst, repo, reps, ripe, rips, rope, seps, sept, sipe, sips, sops, spit, spot, step, stop, tips, tope, topi, tops, trip, and trop — 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 ripostes turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, per, pet, pie, pit, pot, and pro. For points, the strongest plays are ope, ops, opt, per, pes, pet, pie, pis, pit, poi, pos, pot, pro, psi, pst, rep, rip, sip, sop, tip, and top — 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ripostes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, pi, 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 ripostes 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.
ripostes 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for ripostes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
ripostes is one of five eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ripostes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are prosiest, prosties, reposits, ripostes, and triposes, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ripostes 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 ripostes produce 343 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 eight-letter words, 30 seven-letter words, 70 six-letter words, 84 five-letter words, 85 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.