oppresses 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, 127 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
oppresses is the highest-scoring word from oppresses, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 127 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in oppresses — and it is oppresses itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oppresses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with espresso. For points, the strongest play is preposes — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in oppresses produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with presses. For points, the strongest plays are oppress and prepose — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling oppresses turns up 12 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is preops, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oppresses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with popes, poses and press. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including popes, props and peeps.
Rearranging the letters in oppresses produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pees, pope and pops. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including pope, pops and prop.
Unscrambling oppresses turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pee, per and pop. For points, the strongest plays are pep and pop — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oppresses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or and so. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in oppresses plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in oppresses 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.
oppresses 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 two senses for oppresses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
oppresses is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing oppresses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is oppresses, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from oppresses 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 oppresses produce 127 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.