opposition needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 134 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
opposition is the highest-scoring word from opposition, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 134 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in opposition — and it is opposition itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling opposition produces exactly one eight-letter word: position. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in opposition produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with options. For points, the strongest plays are pinspot and topspin — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling opposition turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with option, points, and poison. For points, the strongest plays are pipits and postop — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in opposition. If a familiar word is all you need, start with point, poops, and spoon. For points, the strongest plays are oppos, pipit, and poops — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in opposition produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with into, onto and oops. For points, the strongest plays are oppo, pips, poop, and pops — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling opposition turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, not and pin. For points, the strongest plays are pip and pop — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in opposition. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and it. For points, the strongest plays are op, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in opposition plus one additional letter.
opposition 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 eight senses for opposition. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
opposition is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing opposition unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is opposition, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from opposition 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 opposition produce 134 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.