opponency needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-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.
opponency is the highest-scoring word from opponency, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 63 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in opponency — and it is opponency itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling opponency produces exactly one six-letter word: neocon. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in opponency. If a familiar word is all you need, start with penny. For points, the strongest play is poopy — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in opponency produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cone, copy and none. For points, the strongest play is copy — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling opponency turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cop and one. For points, the strongest plays are coy, pye, and yep — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in opponency. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, on, oy, and yo. For points, the strongest plays are oy, ye, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in opponency 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.
opponency is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
opponency is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing opponency unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is opponency, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from opponency 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 opponency produce 63 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 8 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.