Hidden inside jeopardies sit jeopardies and jeopardise, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 20 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 553 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
jeopardies and jeopardise tie for the highest Scrabble score from jeopardies at 20 points. The top 10 of 553 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in jeopardies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and jeopardies 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 jeopardies and jeopardise, each worth 20 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in jeopardies. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is jeopards, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in jeopardies produces 24 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diapers, episode, periods, and praised. For points, the strongest play is jeopard — worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling jeopardies turns up 83 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adores, desire and diaper. For points, the strongest plays are japers and jasper — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 163 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in jeopardies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with opera, pairs and posed. For points, the strongest play is japed — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in jeopardies produces 161 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs and apes. For points, the strongest plays are jape and jeep — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling jeopardies turns up 88 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and air. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including jar, aji and jee.
There are 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in jeopardies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as and do. For points, the strongest play is jo — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in jeopardies plus one additional letter.
jeopardies 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 jeopardies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 20 points on a Scrabble board:
jeopardies is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing jeopardies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are jeopardies and jeopardise, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from jeopardies 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 jeopardies produce 553 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 24 seven-letter words, 83 six-letter words, 163 five-letter words, 161 four-letter words, 88 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.