Hidden inside leafhopper sit fleahopper and leafhopper, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 20 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 256 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fleahopper and leafhopper tie for the highest Scrabble score from leafhopper at 20 points. The top 10 of 256 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in leafhopper: one comes from rearranging its letters, and leafhopper 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 fleahopper and leafhopper, each worth 20 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in leafhopper produces 6 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are flapper and flopper, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling leafhopper turns up 24 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with people. For points, the strongest plays are frappe, hepper, hopper, and hopple — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 36 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in leafhopper. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apple, opera, and paper. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including aleph, ephor and hoper.
Rearranging the letters in leafhopper produces 99 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fear, feel and flap. For points, the strongest play is half — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling leafhopper turns up 65 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and ear. For points, the strongest plays are fah, feh, and foh — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in leafhopper. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, eh and ha. For points, 10 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in leafhopper plus one additional letter.
leafhopper 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 2-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 leafhopper. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 20 points on a Scrabble board:
leafhopper is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing leafhopper unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are fleahopper and leafhopper, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from leafhopper 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 leafhopper produce 256 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 24 six-letter words, 36 five-letter words, 99 four-letter words, 65 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.