opportunity needs no unscrambling at all — the eleven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 235 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
opportunity is the highest-scoring word from opportunity, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 235 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eleven-letter word uses the letters in opportunity — and it is opportunity itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling opportunity produces exactly one nine-letter word: pourpoint. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in opportunity. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is punitory, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in opportunity produces 5 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 outpity and turnipy, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling opportunity turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with option and pointy. For points, the strongest plays are trippy and uppity — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 50 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in opportunity. If a familiar word is all you need, start with irony, point, print, and troop. For points, the strongest plays are nippy, poopy, and tippy — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in opportunity produces 75 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with into, iron and onto. For points, the strongest plays are pipy and typp — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling opportunity turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nor, not and nut. For points, the strongest plays are pry, yip, and yup — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in opportunity. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, it and no. For points, the strongest plays are oy and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
opportunity 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 one sense for opportunity. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
opportunity is the only eleven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing opportunity unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is opportunity, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from opportunity 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 opportunity produce 235 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eleven-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 50 five-letter words, 75 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.