receptors needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 300 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
receptors is the highest-scoring word from receptors, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 300 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in receptors — and it is receptors itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in receptors. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are prescore and receptor, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in receptors produces 20 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reports, respect, and restore. For points, 9 words tie at 11 points, including respect, copters and porrect.
Unscrambling receptors turns up 51 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with corpse, creeps and poster. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including corpse, creeps and copers.
There are 80 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in receptors. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cores, poets and ropes. For points, 12 words tie at 9 points, including cepes, coper and copes.
Rearranging the letters in receptors produces 80 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cops, core and cost. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including cops, cepe and ceps.
Unscrambling receptors turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cop, pee and per. For points, the strongest plays are cep, cop, and pec — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in receptors. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
9 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in receptors plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in receptors 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.
receptors 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 two senses for receptors. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
receptors is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing receptors unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is receptors, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from receptors 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 receptors produce 300 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 5 eight-letter words, 20 seven-letter words, 51 six-letter words, 80 five-letter words, 80 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.