opposites 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, 182 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
opposites is the highest-scoring word from opposites, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 182 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in opposites — and it is opposites itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in opposites. If a familiar word is all you need, start with opposite. For points, the strongest plays are opposite, poopiest, postpose, and soppiest — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in opposites produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with opposes. For points, the strongest plays are opposes, popsies, postops, potpies, and sippets — 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 opposites turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with oppose. For points, the strongest plays are oppose, pipets, popsie, postop, potpie, and sippet — 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 36 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in opposites. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pipes, poets, poops, popes, poses, posts, and sites. For points, the strongest plays are oppos, pepos, pipes, pipet, 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 opposites produces 53 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with oops, pets, pies, pipe, pits, poet, and poop. For points, the strongest plays are oppo, pepo, peps, pipe, pips, 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 opposites turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, pet, pie, pit, poo, pop, and pot. For points, the strongest plays are pep, pip, 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in opposites. 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in opposites 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.
opposites 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 opposites. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
opposites is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing opposites unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is opposites, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from opposites 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 opposites produce 182 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 5 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 36 five-letter words, 53 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.