Hidden inside interlopes sit interlopes, repletions, and terpineols, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 981 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
interlopes, repletions, and terpineols tie for the highest Scrabble score from interlopes at 12 points. The top 10 of 981 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 ten-letter words hiding in interlopes: two come from rearranging its letters, and interlopes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are interlopes, repletions, and terpineols, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling interlopes turns up 10 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are entropies, epistoler, interlope, interpose, petronels, pistoleer, repletion, soleprint, terpineol, and terpinols, 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 36 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in interlopes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with plenties and silenter. For points, the strongest plays are epistler, isoprene, leporine, peltries, penlites, pereions, perlites, petioles, petronel, pilsener, pioneers, plenties, poetiser, poetries, pointers, poitrels, porniest, potlines, prolines, proteins, repoints, reptiles, splinter, terpinol, toplines, and tropines — 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 interlopes produces 104 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entries, openers, politer, present, and spoiler. For points, the strongest plays are elopers, epistle, epsilon, erepsin, inepter, leprose, leptins, leptons, openers, openest, orpines, pelites, pelters, penlite, pensile, penster, pentose, peonies, pereion, pereons, perlite, pestier, petiole, petrels, petrols, pilsner, pinoles, pintles, pintoes, piolets, pioneer, pistole, plenist, poetise, pointer, pointes, poitrel, politer, pontils, posteen, postern, poteens, potline, present, proline, pronest, prostie, protein, pterins, reopens, repents, repines, replies, replots, repoint, reposit, reptile, respelt, respite, resplit, riposte, ropiest, serpent, spelter, spieler, spoiler, topline, triples, tropine, and tropins — 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 interlopes turns up 216 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enters, entire, listen, opener, person, pilots, and points. For points, the strongest plays are eloper, elopes, espoir, esprit, instep, lepers, leptin, lepton, lisper, lopers, netops, opener, opines, orpine, orpins, pelite, pelter, penile, pensil, peones, pereon, perils, pernio, person, pester, pestle, peters, petrel, petrol, pilose, pilots, pinole, pinots, pintle, pintos, piolet, pistol, piston, pitons, pleons, pliers, pointe, points, poiser, poleis, polers, polies, polite, ponies, pontes, pontil, porins, posier, poster, postie, postin, poteen, potsie, preens, preset, presto, priest, prints, prions, prison, proles, prones, prosit, protei, pterin, reopen, repels, repent, repine, repins, replot, repose, repost, repots, respot, ripens, ripest, ripost, sitrep, sloper, sniper, sopite, spinel, spinet, spinor, spinto, spleen, splent, spline, splint, splore, spoilt, sprent, sprint, sprite, stipel, stoper, stripe, topees, topers, tripes, triple, tripos, tropes, and tropin — 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 272 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in interlopes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with noise, notes, opens, peels, penes, penis, and piles. For points, the strongest plays are neeps, netop, opens, opine, opsin, orpin, peels, peens, peers, peins, peise, peles, pelon, pelts, penes, penis, peons, peres, peril, peris, perse, pesto, peter, piers, piles, pilot, pines, pinot, pinto, pints, pions, pirns, piste, piton, pleon, plier, plies, plots, poets, point, poise, poler, poles, polis, pones, pores, porin, porns, ports, poser, posit, preen, prees, prese, prest, pries, print, prion, prise, prole, prone, prose, prost, repel, repin, repos, repot, ripen, ripes, ropes, sleep, slept, slipe, slipt, slope, snipe, speel, speer, speil, speir, spelt, spent, spiel, spier, spile, spilt, spine, spire, spirt, spite, split, spoil, spore, sport, spree, sprit, steep, stipe, stirp, stope, strep, strip, strop, elope, estop, inept, inspo, leper, lipos, loper, lopes, topee, toper, topes, topis, tripe, trips, and trope — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in interlopes produces 217 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lent, lets, lies, line, lion, lips, and list. For points, the strongest plays are lept, lipe, lipo, lips, lisp, lope, lops, neep, nips, nope, open, opes, opts, peel, peen, peer, pees, pein, pele, pelt, pens, pent, peon, pere, peri, pert, peso, pest, pets, pier, pies, pile, pine, pins, pint, pion, pirn, piso, pits, plie, plot, poet, pois, pole, pols, pone, pons, pore, porn, port, pose, post, pots, pree, pros, repo, reps, ripe, rips, rope, seep, sept, sipe, slip, slop, snip, spin, spit, spot, step, stop, epos, tips, tope, topi, tops, trip, and trop — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling interlopes turns up 96 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, let, lie, lip, lit, lot, and net. For points, the strongest plays are lip, lop, nip, ope, ops, opt, pee, pen, per, pes, pet, pie, pin, pis, pit, poi, pol, pos, pot, pro, psi, pst, rep, rip, sip, sop, tip, and top — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in interlopes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in interlopes plus one additional letter.
interlopes 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 interlopes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
interlopes is one of three ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing interlopes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are interlopes, repletions, and terpineols, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from interlopes 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 interlopes produce 981 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 ten-letter words, 10 nine-letter words, 36 eight-letter words, 104 seven-letter words, 216 six-letter words, 272 five-letter words, 217 four-letter words, 96 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.