opponents needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 158 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
opponents is the highest-scoring word from opponents, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 158 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in opponents — and it is opponents itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in opponents. If a familiar word is all you need, start with opponent and postpone. For points, the strongest plays are opponens, opponent, and postpone — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in opponents 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 nonstop and pontons, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling opponents turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with oppose. For points, the strongest plays are oppose and postop — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in opponents. If a familiar word is all you need, start with noons, notes and opens. For points, the strongest plays are oppos, pepos, poops, and popes — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in opponents produces 56 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nest, nets and none. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including poop, pope and pops.
Unscrambling opponents turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with net, not and one. For points, the strongest plays are pep and pop — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in opponents. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, on, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in opponents plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in opponents 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.
opponents 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 4-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 opponents. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
opponents is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing opponents unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is opponents, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from opponents 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 opponents produce 158 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 56 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.