Unscramble RIPOST and you have 100 words, RIPOST itself among them: it scores 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. RIPOST has 2 anagrams here, PROSIT and TRIPOS, scoring 8 like RIPOST itself. The 6 letters split into 2 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from RIPOST split into 3 with 6 letters, 20 with 5, 33 with 4, 30 with 3 and 14 with 2.
Keep every letter of RIPOST but one, change that one, and you get:
More 6-letter words: starting with RI · ending in ST · all 6-letter words
RIPOST first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. RIPOST is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIPOST itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 100) | 86 | 100 | 81 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
14 of the 100 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: PIRS, RIPT, RISP, PIR, ROIST, ROSIT, RITS, ROST, IOS, ISO, OIS, RIT and 2 more. 5 of the 100 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: POS, PST, ROSTI, PO and OI.
Each word below uses all the letters of RIPOST and one more.