Hidden inside scarper sit carpers, scarper, and scraper, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 148 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
carpers, scarper, and scraper tie for the highest Scrabble score from scarper at 11 points. The top 10 of 148 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in scarper: two come from rearranging its letters, and scarper itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are carpers, scarper, and scraper, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling scarper turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with scrape and sparer. For points, the strongest plays are capers, carper, crapes, escarp, pacers, parsec, recaps, scrape, secpar, and spacer — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 41 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scarper. If a familiar word is all you need, start with capes, cares, craps, races, scare, space, and spare. For points, the strongest plays are caper, capes, carps, crape, craps, pacer, paces, percs, recap, scape, scarp, scrap, and space — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in scarper produces 46 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, cape, caps, care, cars, case, and crap. For points, the strongest plays are cape, caps, carp, ceps, crap, pace, pacs, pecs, perc, and spec — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling scarper turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, cap, car, ear, era, and pea. For points, the strongest plays are cap, cep, pac, and pec — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scarper. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — 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 scarper 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.
scarper 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 one sense for scarper. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
scarper is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing scarper unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are carpers, scarper, and scraper, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from scarper 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 scarper produce 148 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 41 five-letter words, 46 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.