Hidden inside hope sit hope and pheo, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 17 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble OPHE, PEHO or EOPH and you get the same 4 letters as HOPE: so the words from HOPE listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
hope and pheo tie for the highest Scrabble score from hope at 9 points. The top 10 of 17 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 four-letter words hiding in hope: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hope itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hope. For points, the strongest plays are hope and pheo — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in hope 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.
hope 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 hope carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record nine senses for hope. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
hope is one of two four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hope unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hope and pheo, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hope 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 hope produce 17 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 four-letter words, 7 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.