Hidden inside drop sit dorp, drop, and prod, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 12 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dorp, drop, and prod tie for the highest Scrabble score from drop at 7 points. The top 10 of 12 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 four-letter words hiding in drop: two come from rearranging its letters, and drop itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drop. For points, the strongest plays are dorp, drop, and prod — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling drop turns up 4 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pro and rod. For points, the strongest play is pod — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in drop. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do and or. For points, the strongest plays are op and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in drop and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
drop 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 thirty-two senses for drop. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
drop is one of three four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing drop unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dorp, drop, and prod, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from drop 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 drop produce 12 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 four-letter words, 4 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.