Hidden inside tapering sit retaping and tapering, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 309 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
retaping and tapering tie for the highest Scrabble score from tapering at 11 points. The top 10 of 309 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in tapering: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tapering itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are retaping and tapering, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tapering produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tearing. For points, the strongest plays are parting, prating, reaping, and trepang — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tapering turns up 38 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eating, parent, pirate, rating, and taping. For points, the strongest plays are parget, paring, pinger, raping, and taping — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 62 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tapering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, anger, giant, grant, grape, great, and paint. For points, the strongest plays are aping, gaper, genip, grape, gripe, gript, pager, parge, and prang — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tapering produces 99 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, gain, gate, grip, near, neat, and page. For points, the strongest plays are gape, grip, page, pang, peag, ping, and prig — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tapering turns up 75 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, ant, ape, are, art, and ate. For points, the strongest plays are gap, gip, peg, and pig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tapering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and pi — 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 tapering and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
tapering 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for tapering. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
tapering is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tapering unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are retaping and tapering, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tapering 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 tapering produce 309 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 38 six-letter words, 62 five-letter words, 99 four-letter words, 75 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.