Unscramble ESPRITS to get 190 words. ESPRITS itself is a real word: 9 points on a Scrabble board, 10 in Words With Friends. It has 8 anagrams at 9 points each, among them PERSIST, PRIESTS and SITREPS. 7 letters: 2 vowels and 5 consonants. ESPRITS as a single 7-tile play makes 59 in Scrabble, 9 plus the 50 bonus, and 45 in Words With Friends (10 + 35).
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from ESPRITS split into 9 with 7 letters, 29 with 6, 51 with 5, 56 with 4, 33 with 3 and 12 with 2.
24 of 29 6-letter words in ESPRITS tie at 8 points; none scores more. SISTER, PRIEST and STRIPS will look familiar.
Of the 51 5-letter words you get when you unscramble ESPRITS, 36 score 7 points, the group's best. SITES, PRESS and STEPS are the ones most people know.
28 of 56 4-letter words from ESPRITS tie at 6 points; none scores more. SITE, TIPS and STEP will look familiar.
Keep every letter of ESPRITS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with ES · ending in TS · all 7-letter words
ESPRITS first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
ESPRITS works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESPRITS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 190) | 154 | 189 | 143 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 35 of them: TRIPSES, PIERST, PIERTS, SPERST, EPRIS, PERST, PERTS, PETRI, PIERT, PIETS, PISES, RISPS and 23 more. Words With Friends* skips 11 of them: SITREPS, SITREP, RESITS, SEPS, PST, RESIT, ESTS, TRES, EST, TES and TE. Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends* skip 1 of them: ITER.
These 12 words take every letter of ESPRITS plus a single extra one.