opprobrium needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 98 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
opprobrium is the highest-scoring word from opprobrium, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 98 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in opprobrium — and it is opprobrium itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling opprobrium produces exactly one eight-letter word: proprium. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in opprobrium. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rumor. For points, the strongest play is primp — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in opprobrium produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boom, bump and pimp. For points, the strongest plays are bump, pimp, pomp, and pump — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling opprobrium turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boo, bum and mob. For points, 12 words tie at 7 points, including bum, mob and mop.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in opprobrium. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, um, and up. For points, 11 words tie at 4 points, including um, up and bi.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in opprobrium plus one additional letter.
opprobrium 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 5-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 opprobrium. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
opprobrium is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing opprobrium unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is opprobrium, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from opprobrium 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 opprobrium produce 98 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 12 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.