opaques needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 63 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
opaques is the highest-scoring word from opaques, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 63 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in opaques — and it is opaques itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling opaques produces exactly one six-letter word: opaque. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in opaques. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pause. For points, the strongest play is queso — 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 opaques produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, peas, pose, soap, and soup. For points, the strongest plays are apes, apos, apse, epos, opas, opes, opus, pase, peas, peso, pose, soap, soup, spae, spue, supe, and upas — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling opaques turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, pea, sea, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are qua and suq — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in opaques. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, so, up, and us. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, po, and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in opaques plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in opaques 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.
opaques 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 opaques. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
opaques is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing opaques unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is opaques, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from opaques 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 opaques produce 63 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 4 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.