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Anagrams of DRAPES

7 words use exactly A D E P R S

  • Common 5
  • drapes9
  • parsed9
  • rasped9
  • spared9
  • spread9
  • Everyday 1
  • padres9
  • Less common 1
  • spader9

Every word in ENABLE (a public-domain Scrabble-style list) made of exactly these 6 letters, slurs removed, common words first. 5 are common in English dictionaries (the SCOWL grade); PADRES is everyday; SPADER is less common. Each scores 9 points at face value. It is number 7 of the 10 groups with the most common anagrams, out of 830 groups that qualify.

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The page is named DRAPES because the rule names each group after its most common member, and DRAPES ties with PARSED, RASPED, SPARED and SPREAD on the commonness grade, so the tie goes A to Z. Every word here has this one page; none gets a page of its own.

97 shorter words from A D E P R S The same list the solver gives for DRAPES: every word of 2 to 5 letters these tiles make, each letter used at most as often as it appears. Longest first; common words first in each length, A to Z inside each grade. The longest are 5 letters. The top scorer is DRAPE at 8 points.

5 letters 23 words

  • Common 14
  • dares6
  • dears6
  • drape8
  • pared8
  • pares7
  • parse7
  • pears7
  • raped8
  • rapes7
  • reads6
  • reaps7
  • spade8
  • spare7
  • spear7
  • Everyday 1
  • padre8
  • Less common 3
  • asper7
  • prase7
  • presa7
  • Rare 5
  • apers7
  • apres7
  • pards8
  • rased6
  • spaed8

4 letters 35 words

  • Common 22
  • aped7
  • apes6
  • ares4
  • arse4
  • dare5
  • dear5
  • ears4
  • eras4
  • pads7
  • pare6
  • pars6
  • pear6
  • peas6
  • rape6
  • raps6
  • rasp6
  • read5
  • reap6
  • reds5
  • sear4
  • spar6
  • sped7
  • Everyday 2
  • apse6
  • reps6
  • Less common 5
  • pard7
  • pase6
  • rads5
  • sard5
  • spae6
  • Rare 6
  • aper6
  • daps7
  • peds7
  • rase4
  • sade5
  • sera4

3 letters 28 words

  • Common 16
  • ads4
  • ape5
  • are3
  • ear3
  • era3
  • pad6
  • par5
  • pas5
  • pea5
  • per5
  • rap5
  • red4
  • sad4
  • sap5
  • sea3
  • spa5
  • Everyday 2
  • asp5
  • rep5
  • Less common 2
  • dap6
  • pes5
  • Rare 8
  • ars3
  • ers3
  • ped6
  • rad4
  • ras3
  • res3
  • sae3
  • ser3

2 letters 11 words

  • Common 4
  • ad3
  • as2
  • pa4
  • re2
  • Everyday 1
  • es2
  • Less common 3
  • de3
  • er2
  • pe4
  • Rare 3
  • ae2
  • ar2
  • ed3