Hidden inside sharper sit harpers and sharper, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 136 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble SHARREP, REARHPS or SPHARRE and you get the same 7 letters as SHARPER: so the words from SHARPER listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
harpers and sharper tie for the highest Scrabble score from sharper at 12 points. The top 10 of 136 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in sharper: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sharper itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sharper. For points, the strongest plays are harpers and sharper — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sharper turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with phrase and sparer. For points, 7 words tie at 11 points, including phrase, harper and phaser.
There are 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sharper. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hears, phase and shape. For points, 7 words tie at 10 points, including phase, shape and sharp.
Rearranging the letters in sharper produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, ears and eras. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including epha, haps and harp.
Unscrambling sharper turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and ash. For points, the strongest plays are hap, hep, pah, and peh — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sharper. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as and eh. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
5 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in sharper plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sharper 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.
sharper 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in sharper carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for sharper. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
sharper is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sharper unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are harpers and sharper, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sharper 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 sharper produce 136 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.