Hidden inside openers sit openers, pereons, and reopens, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 127 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
openers, pereons, and reopens tie for the highest Scrabble score from openers at 9 points. The top 10 of 127 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in openers: two come from rearranging its letters, and openers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with openers. For points, the strongest plays are openers, pereons, and reopens — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling openers turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with opener and person. For points, the strongest plays are opener, peones, pereon, person, preens, prones, reopen, and repose — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in openers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with opens, penes, porns, and ropes. For points, the strongest plays are neeps, opens, peens, peers, penes, peons, peres, perse, pones, pores, porns, poser, preen, prees, prese, prone, prose, repos, ropes, speer, spore, and spree — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in openers produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nope, nose, ones, open, pees, pens, and porn. For points, the strongest plays are epos, neep, nope, open, opes, peen, peer, pees, pens, peon, pere, peso, pone, pons, pore, porn, pose, pree, pros, repo, reps, rope, and seep — 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 openers turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nor, one, pee, pen, per, pro, and rep. For points, the strongest plays are ope, ops, pee, pen, per, pes, pos, pro, rep, and sop — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in openers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are op, 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 openers 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.
openers 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 three senses for openers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
openers is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing openers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are openers, pereons, and reopens, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from openers 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 openers produce 127 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.