chopping needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 77 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chopping is the highest-scoring word from chopping, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 77 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in chopping — and it is chopping itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in chopping produces 2 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: hopping, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chopping. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pinch. For points, the strongest plays are hippo and pinch — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in chopping produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chin, chip and chop. For points, the strongest plays are chip and chop — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chopping turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cop and hip. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including hip, hop and chi.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chopping. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, hi and ho. For points, the strongest plays are hi, ho, and oh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in chopping and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
chopping 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
chopping is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chopping unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is chopping, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from chopping 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 chopping produce 77 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.