opossums needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 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.
opossums is the highest-scoring word from opossums, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 63 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in opossums — and it is opossums itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in opossums produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are opossum and possums, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in opossums. If a familiar word is all you need, start with soups. For points, the strongest plays are pomos and sumps — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in opossums produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with moos, mops and oops. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including mops, pomo and poms.
Unscrambling opossums turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with moo, mop, and poo. For points, the strongest plays are mop, pom, and ump — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in opossums and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
opossums 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 opossums. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
opossums is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing opossums unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is opossums, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from opossums 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 opossums produce 63 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.