Hidden inside transepts sit transepts and trapnests, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 411 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
transepts and trapnests tie for the highest Scrabble score from transepts at 11 points. The top 10 of 411 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in transepts: one comes from rearranging its letters, and transepts itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are transepts and trapnests, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in transepts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with patterns. For points, the strongest plays are pasterns, patterns, raptness, spatters, tapsters, transept, and trapnest — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in transepts produces 24 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with parents, pattern, and sparest. For points, the strongest plays are aptness, arpents, entraps, pantses, parents, pastern, pasters, patents, patness, pattens, pattern, patters, repasts, reptant, sparest, spatter, tapster, and trepans — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling transepts turns up 62 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with parent, sanest, spares, stares, starts, states, and straps. For points, the strongest plays are aptest, arpens, arpent, aspens, aspers, enrapt, entrap, parens, parent, parses, passer, paster, pastes, patens, patent, paters, patten, patter, prases, prates, prests, repass, repast, sneaps, spares, sparse, spates, speans, spears, sprats, sprent, stapes, straps, streps, tapers, trapes, and trepan — 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 121 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in transepts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns, nests, pants, parts, pasts, press, and rates. For points, the strongest plays are apers, apres, apses, apter, arpen, aspen, asper, napes, neaps, panes, pants, paren, pares, parse, parts, pases, passe, paste, pasts, paten, pater, pates, peans, pears, peart, peats, pests, prase, prate, prats, presa, press, prest, rapes, rasps, reaps, septa, septs, snaps, sneap, spaes, spans, spare, spars, spate, spats, spean, spear, spent, sprat, steps, strap, strep, taper, tapes, tarps, tepas, traps, and trapt — 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 transepts produces 118 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, apes, arts, naps, near, neat, and nest. For points, the strongest plays are aper, apes, apse, asps, nape, naps, neap, pane, pans, pant, pare, pars, part, pase, pass, past, pate, pats, pean, pear, peas, peat, pens, pent, pert, pest, pets, prat, psst, rape, raps, rapt, rasp, reap, reps, saps, seps, sept, snap, spae, span, spar, spas, 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 transepts turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ape, are, art, ass, ate, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are ape, apt, asp, nap, pan, par, pas, pat, pea, pen, 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in transepts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, 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.
Swap a single tile in transepts and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
transepts 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 2-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 transepts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
transepts is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing transepts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are transepts and trapnests, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from transepts 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 transepts produce 411 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 24 seven-letter words, 62 six-letter words, 121 five-letter words, 118 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.