Hidden inside scarp sit carps, craps, scarp and 1 other, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 31 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
carps, craps, scarp and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from scarp at 9 points. The top 10 of 31 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 five-letter words hiding in scarp: three come from rearranging its letters, and scarp itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with craps. For points, the strongest plays are carps, craps, scarp, and scrap — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in scarp produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caps, cars and crap. For points, the strongest plays are caps, carp, crap, and pacs — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling scarp turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cap, car, and rap. For points, the strongest plays are cap and pac — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in scarp and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
scarp 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 two senses for scarp. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
scarp is one of four five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing scarp unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are carps, craps, scarp, and scrap, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from scarp 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 scarp produce 31 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 3 two-letter words.