Hidden inside opposite sit opposite and poopiest, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 125 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
opposite and poopiest tie for the highest Scrabble score from opposite at 12 points. The top 10 of 125 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in opposite: one comes from rearranging its letters, and opposite itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with opposite. For points, the strongest plays are opposite and poopiest — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in opposite 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 word is potpies, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling opposite turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with oppose. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including oppose, pipets and popsie.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in opposite. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pipes, poets, poops, and popes. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including pipes, poops and popes.
Rearranging the letters in opposite produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with oops, pets and pies. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including pipe, poop and pope.
Unscrambling opposite turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, pet and pie. For points, the strongest plays are pep, pip, and pop — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in opposite. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in opposite plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in opposite 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.
opposite 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record eleven senses for opposite. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
opposite is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing opposite unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are opposite and poopiest, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from opposite 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 opposite produce 125 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.