PEP is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. PEP is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PEP?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PEP is to know. It scores 7 from 3 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PEP
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PEP scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in PEP, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 2 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 13,475.
What stands out about PEP
- PEP is a palindrome: it reads the same in both directions, so it plays the same way whichever end you build from.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does PEP mean in Scrabble?
noun
Energy and high spirits.
Pep is clipped from pepper and the idea behind it is the same: something that adds heat. It belongs to American English of the 1910s and survives mostly in pep talk, which is a speech meant to supply exactly what the listener has run out of.
How PEP is used
Uncountable: full of pep. Also a verb — to pep up.
- She came back from the break full of pep.
- A pep talk works once and rarely twice.
- The word pep is clipped from pepper.
- They pepped the whole thing up with a new opening.
- There was no pep in the room after the announcement.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PEP and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PEP
Showing 24 of 141 words that begin with PEP.
Words with PEP inside
Showing 24 of 64 words that contain PEP somewhere in the middle. Words that start with PEP are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in PEP
Common questions about PEP
- Is PEP valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PEP, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PEP worth?
- PEP is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PEP mean?
- Energy and high spirits.
- What letters can be added to PEP?
- PEP takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of PEP:
Open PEP in the Word Finder