Hidden inside opalesces sit escalopes and opalesces, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 313 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
escalopes and opalesces tie for the highest Scrabble score from opalesces at 13 points. The top 10 of 313 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in opalesces: one comes from rearranging its letters, and opalesces itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are escalopes and opalesces, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in opalesces. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are escalope, escalops, and opalesce, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in opalesces produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with escapes. For points, the strongest plays are capless, escalop, escapes, and scapose — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling opalesces turns up 39 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asleep, ceases, closes, escape, leases, places, and please. For points, the strongest plays are clasps, clepes, copals, copses, escape, peaces, places, scalps, scapes, scopae, scopes, and spaces — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 84 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in opalesces. If a familiar word is all you need, start with capes, cases, cease, claps, class, close, and colas. For points, the strongest plays are capes, capos, cepes, claps, clasp, clepe, clops, copal, copes, copse, paces, peace, place, scalp, scape, scopa, scope, scops, space, and specs — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in opalesces produces 104 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, apes, laps, leap, less, lose, and loss. For points, the strongest plays are pace, pacs, pecs, scop, spec, cape, capo, caps, cepe, ceps, clap, clop, cope, and cops — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling opalesces turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, ass, cap, cop, lap, pal, and pea. For points, the strongest plays are cap, cep, cop, pac, and pec — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in opalesces. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and so. 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in opalesces plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in opalesces and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
opalesces 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 two senses for opalesces. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
opalesces is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing opalesces unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are escalopes and opalesces, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from opalesces 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 opalesces produce 313 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 39 six-letter words, 84 five-letter words, 104 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.