hippies needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 40 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hippies is the highest-scoring word from hippies, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 40 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in hippies — and it is hippies itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hippies produces exactly one six-letter word: hippie. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hippies produces exactly one five-letter word: pipes. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in hippies produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hips, pies, pipe, and ship. For points, the strongest plays are heps, hips, pehs, phis, pish, and ship — 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 hippies turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hip, his, pie, she, and sip. For points, the strongest plays are hep, hip, peh, and phi — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hippies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, is, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, hi, 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.
Swap a single tile in hippies and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
hippies 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 hippies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
hippies is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hippies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is hippies, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from hippies 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 hippies produce 40 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 1 five-letter word, 12 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.