Hidden inside lamppost sit lamppost and palmtops, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 184 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lamppost and palmtops tie for the highest Scrabble score from lamppost at 14 points. The top 10 of 184 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in lamppost: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lamppost itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lamppost and palmtops, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in lamppost produces 2 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with laptops. For points, the strongest play is palmtop — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling lamppost turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with almost and laptop. For points, the strongest play is laptop — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lamppost. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atoms, lamps, plots, stamp, and stomp. For points, the strongest play is pomps — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in lamppost produces 78 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, atom, lamp, laps, last, lost, and lots. For points, the strongest play is pomp — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling lamppost turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lap, lot, map, mop, pal, pop, and pot. For points, the strongest plays are amp, app, map, mop, pam, pap, pom, and pop — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lamppost. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, mo, om, op, pa, 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in lamppost plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lamppost and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
lamppost 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 4-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 lamppost. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
lamppost is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lamppost unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lamppost and palmtops, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lamppost 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 lamppost produce 184 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 78 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.