Hidden inside tapers sit paster, paters, prates and 3 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 159 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
paster, paters, prates and 4 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from tapers at 8 points. The top 10 of 159 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 6 six-letter words hiding in tapers: five come from rearranging its letters, and tapers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are paster, paters, prates, repast, tapers, and trapes, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 39 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tapers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with parts, rates, spare, stare, strap, tapes, and tears. For points, the strongest plays are apers, apres, apter, asper, pares, parse, parts, paste, pater, pates, pears, peart, peats, prase, prate, prats, presa, prest, rapes, reaps, septa, spare, spate, spear, sprat, strap, strep, taper, tapes, tarps, tepas, and traps — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tapers produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, arts, ears, east, eats, eras, and part. For points, the strongest plays are aper, apes, apse, pare, pars, part, pase, past, pate, pats, pear, peas, peat, pert, pest, pets, prat, rape, raps, rapt, rasp, reap, reps, sept, spae, spar, spat, step, tape, taps, tarp, tepa, and trap — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tapers turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are ape, apt, asp, par, pas, pat, pea, per, pes, pet, pst, rap, rep, sap, spa, and tap — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tapers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. 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.
50 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in tapers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tapers 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.
tapers 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 six senses for tapers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
tapers is one of six six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tapers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are paster, paters, prates, repast, tapers, and trapes, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tapers 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 tapers produce 159 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 6 six-letter words, 39 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.