Hidden inside trepan sit arpent, enrapt, entrap and 2 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 95 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
arpent, enrapt, entrap and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from trepan at 8 points. The top 10 of 95 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 six-letter words hiding in trepan: four come from rearranging its letters, and trepan itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with parent. For points, the strongest plays are arpent, enrapt, entrap, parent, 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 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in trepan. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are apter, arpen, paren, paten, pater, peart, prate, and taper, 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 trepan produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, near, neat, part, rate, rent, and tape. For points, the strongest plays are aper, nape, neap, pane, pant, pare, part, pate, pean, pear, peat, pent, pert, prat, rape, rapt, reap, tape, 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 trepan turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ape, are, art, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are ape, apt, nap, pan, par, pat, pea, pen, per, pet, rap, rep, 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in trepan. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an 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 trepan 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.
trepan 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 three senses for trepan. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
trepan is one of five six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing trepan unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are arpent, enrapt, entrap, parent, and trepan, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from trepan 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 trepan produce 95 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.