dropkicks needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 158 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dropkicks is the highest-scoring word from dropkicks, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 158 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in dropkicks — and it is dropkicks itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling dropkicks produces exactly one eight-letter word: dropkick. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dropkicks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cords, dicks and disco. For points, the strongest plays are picks, pocks, and prick — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in dropkicks produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cops, cord and dick. For points, the strongest plays are pick and pock — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling dropkicks turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cop, dip and ids. For points, the strongest plays are ick, kip, and kop — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dropkicks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id and is. For points, the strongest plays are ki and ok — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
dropkicks 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for dropkicks. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
dropkicks is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dropkicks unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is dropkicks, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from dropkicks 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 dropkicks produce 158 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.