lop and pol tie for the highest Scrabble score from lop at 5 points. The top 5 of 5 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 three-letter words hiding in lop: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lop itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lop and pol, 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 3 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lop. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are op 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 lop and you get a different three-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 2 of the 3 letters, not all of them.
lop 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 lop. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 5 points on a Scrabble board:
lop is one of two three-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lop unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lop and pol, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lop 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 lop produce 5 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 three-letter words and 3 two-letter words.