oppositely needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 372 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
oppositely is the highest-scoring word from oppositely, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 372 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in oppositely — and it is oppositely itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oppositely. If a familiar word is all you need, start with opposite. For points, the strongest plays are loppiest, opposite, and poopiest — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in oppositely produces 19 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 soppily, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling oppositely turns up 38 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with oppose, pilots and polite. For points, the strongest plays are polypi, polyps, slippy, and sloppy — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 101 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oppositely. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loose, piles and pilot. For points, 8 words tie at 12 points, including lippy, loppy and polyp.
Rearranging the letters in oppositely produces 120 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lets, lies and lips. For points, the strongest plays are pipy and typp — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling oppositely turns up 66 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, let and lie. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including spy, yep and ply.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oppositely. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it and oy. For points, the strongest plays are oy, ye, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
oppositely 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 one sense for oppositely. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
oppositely is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing oppositely unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is oppositely, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from oppositely 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 oppositely produce 372 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 5 eight-letter words, 19 seven-letter words, 38 six-letter words, 101 five-letter words, 120 four-letter words, 66 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.