Hidden inside sprite sit esprit, priest, ripest and 4 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 100 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
esprit, priest, ripest and 3 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from sprite at 8 points. The top 10 of 100 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 7 six-letter words hiding in sprite: six come from rearranging its letters, and sprite itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with priest and stripe. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including priest, stripe and esprit.
There are 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sprite. If a familiar word is all you need, start with strip, tires, tries, and trips. For points, 19 words tie at 7 points, including strip, trips and peris.
Rearranging the letters in sprite produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pets, pies and pits. For points, 16 words tie at 6 points, including pets, pies and pits.
Unscrambling sprite turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, per and pet. For points, 12 words tie at 5 points, including per, pet and pie.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sprite. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is and it. For points, the strongest plays are pe and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
41 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in sprite plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sprite 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.
sprite 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 sprite. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
sprite is one of seven six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sprite unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are esprit, priest, ripest, sitrep, sprite, stripe, and tripes, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sprite 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 sprite produce 100 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 7 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.