hippopotamus needs no unscrambling at all — the twelve-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 20 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 482 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hippopotamus is the highest-scoring word from hippopotamus, worth 20 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 482 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one twelve-letter word uses the letters in hippopotamus — and it is hippopotamus itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hippopotamus turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is photomaps, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hippopotamus. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is photomap, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in hippopotamus produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with shampoo. For points, the strongest plays are oompahs and shampoo — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hippopotamus turns up 37 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mouths, photos, and smooth. For points, 8 words tie at 13 points, including happis, hippos and mishap.
There are 94 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hippopotamus. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atoms, autos and hoops. For points, 7 words tie at 12 points, including humps, happi and hippo.
Rearranging the letters in hippopotamus produces 180 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, atom and auto. For points, the strongest plays are hump and umph — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hippopotamus turns up 120 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ash and ham. For points, 15 words tie at 8 points, including ham, him and hip.
There are 34 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hippopotamus. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am and as. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
hippopotamus 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 3-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 hippopotamus. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 20 points on a Scrabble board:
hippopotamus is the only twelve-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hippopotamus unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is hippopotamus, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and no other word from hippopotamus 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 hippopotamus produce 482 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 twelve-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 37 six-letter words, 94 five-letter words, 180 four-letter words, 120 three-letter words and 34 two-letter words.