Hidden inside tapier sit pirate and pratie, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 91 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
TAPIER isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to PIRATE and PRATIE.
pirate and pratie tie for the highest Scrabble score from tapier at 8 points. The top 10 of 91 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling tapier turns up 2 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pirate. For points, the strongest plays are pirate and pratie — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tapier. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are apter, atrip, pater and 6 more, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tapier produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pair, part and rate. For points, 21 words tie at 6 points, including pair, part and tape.
Unscrambling tapier turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ape and are. For points, 15 words tie at 5 points, including ape, pea and per.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tapier. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at and it. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
25 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in tapier plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tapier 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pirate and pratie, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tapier 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 tapier produce 91 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.