Hidden inside doorposts sit doorposts and doorstops, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 127 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
doorposts and doorstops tie for the highest Scrabble score from doorposts at 12 points. The top 10 of 127 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in doorposts: one comes from rearranging its letters, and doorposts itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are doorposts and doorstops, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in doorposts. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are doorpost and doorstop, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling doorposts turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sports and troops. For points, the strongest play is droops — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in doorposts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with doors, drops and odors. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including drops, dorps and droop.
Rearranging the letters in doorposts produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with door, dots and drop. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including drop, dorp and pods.
Unscrambling doorposts turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dot, poo and pot. For points, the strongest play is pod — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in doorposts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in doorposts and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
doorposts 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for doorposts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
doorposts is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing doorposts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are doorposts and doorstops, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from doorposts 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 doorposts produce 127 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.