Hidden inside repair sit rapier and repair, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 46 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble APIRER, REIPAR or PARREI and you get the same 6 letters as REPAIR: so the words from REPAIR listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
rapier and repair tie for the highest Scrabble score from repair at 8 points. The top 10 of 46 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in repair: one comes from rearranging its letters, and repair itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with repair. For points, the strongest plays are rapier and repair — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repair. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are parer, prier, raper, and riper, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in repair produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pair and rare. For points, 10 words tie at 6 points, including pair, aper and pare.
Unscrambling repair turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ape and are. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including ape, pea and per.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repair. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pa, pe, and pi, each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
14 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in repair plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in repair 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.
repair 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 eight senses for repair. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
repair is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing repair unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are rapier and repair, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from repair 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 repair produce 46 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.