Hidden inside leopard sit leopard, paroled, and preload, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 171 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
leopard, paroled, and preload tie for the highest Scrabble score from leopard at 10 points. The top 10 of 171 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in leopard: two come from rearranging its letters, and leopard itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are leopard, paroled, and preload, each 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 leopard turns up 9 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are larped, parled, pedalo, pedlar, and polder, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in leopard. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, older, and opera. For points, the strongest plays are doper, drape, loped, padle, padre, paled, pared, pedal, pedro, plead, poled, pored, raped, and roped — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in leopard produces 60 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, deal, dear, drop, lead, leap, and load. For points, the strongest plays are aped, apod, dopa, dope, dorp, drop, oped, pard, pled, plod, and prod — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling leopard turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, ear, era, lad, lap, and led. For points, the strongest plays are dap, dep, pad, ped, and pod — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in leopard. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, do, and or. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, 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.
Swap a single tile in leopard and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
leopard 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 two senses for leopard. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
leopard is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing leopard unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are leopard, paroled, and preload, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from leopard 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 leopard produce 171 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 60 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.