ripsaw needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 61 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ripsaw is the highest-scoring word from ripsaw, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 61 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in ripsaw — and it is ripsaw itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ripsaw. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pairs and wraps. For points, the strongest plays are warps and wraps — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ripsaw produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, pair and paws. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including paws, wrap and swap.
Unscrambling ripsaw turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, paw and rap. For points, the strongest plays are paw and wap — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
5 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in ripsaw plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ripsaw and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
ripsaw 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 one sense for ripsaw. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
ripsaw is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ripsaw unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ripsaw, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ripsaw 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 ripsaw produce 61 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 5 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.