Hidden inside hardtops sit hardtops and potshard, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 299 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hardtops and potshard tie for the highest Scrabble score from hardtops at 14 points. The top 10 of 299 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in hardtops: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hardtops itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hardtops and potshard, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in hardtops produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dashpot and hardtop, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling hardtops turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adopts and hoards. For points, the strongest plays are pathos, pharos, potash, and thorps — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 65 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hardtops. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adopt, drops, hoard, oaths, parts, paths, and roads. For points, the strongest plays are harps, opahs, paths, phots, sharp, staph, thorp, and tophs — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in hardtops produces 124 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, oath, pads, part, past, path, and post. For points, the strongest plays are opah, pash, path, phat, phos, phot, posh, shop, soph, haps, harp, hasp, hops, and toph — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling hardtops turns up 78 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, art, ash, dot, had, has, and hat. For points, the strongest plays are hap, hop, pah, pho, pht, and poh — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hardtops. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah, as, at, do, ha, and ho. For points, the strongest plays are ah, ha, ho, oh, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in hardtops plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in hardtops 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.
hardtops 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in hardtops carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for hardtops. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
hardtops is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hardtops unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hardtops and potshard, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hardtops 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 hardtops produce 299 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 65 five-letter words, 124 four-letter words, 78 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.