opposable needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 221 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
opposable is the highest-scoring word from opposable, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 221 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in opposable — and it is opposable itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in opposable 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 papoose and posable, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling opposable turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apples and oppose. For points, the strongest plays are appels, apples, appose, bloops, oppose, and peplos — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in opposable. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apple, leaps, loose, poles, pools, poops, and popes. For points, the strongest plays are appel, apple, bloop, oppos, palps, pepla, pepos, plebs, plops, poops, and popes — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in opposable produces 87 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, also, apes, base, boos, labs, and laps. For points, the strongest plays are apps, baps, bops, oppo, palp, paps, pepo, peps, pleb, plop, poop, pope, and pops — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling opposable turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, boo, lab, lap, pal, pea, and poo. For points, the strongest plays are app, bap, bop, pap, pep, and pop — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in opposable. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, be, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, bo, op, pa, 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 opposable 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.
opposable 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 one sense for opposable. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
opposable is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing opposable unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is opposable, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from opposable 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 opposable produce 221 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 87 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.