Hidden inside hopers sit ephors, hopers, and posher, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 96 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ephors, hopers, and posher tie for the highest Scrabble score from hopers at 11 points. The top 10 of 96 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in hopers: two come from rearranging its letters, and hopers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ephors, hopers, and posher, 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 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hopers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hopes, horse, and ropes. For points, the strongest plays are ephor, hoper, hopes, and pheos — 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 hopers produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hero, hers, hope, hops, hose, pose, and pros. For points, the strongest plays are heps, hope, hops, pehs, pheo, phos, posh, shop, and soph — 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 hopers turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, hop, per, pro, rep, and she. For points, the strongest plays are hep, hop, peh, pho, 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hopers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, ho, oh, or, sh, and so. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, 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.
Swap a single tile in hopers and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
hopers 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 hopers carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for hopers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
hopers is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hopers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ephors, hopers, and posher, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hopers 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 hopers produce 96 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.