oppugned needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 94 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
oppugned is the highest-scoring word from oppugned, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 94 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in oppugned — and it is oppugned itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oppugned. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pound. For points, the strongest play is upped — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in oppugned produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with done, gone and nope. For points, the strongest plays are pepo and pope — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling oppugned turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dog, due and dug. For points, the strongest plays are pep, pop, and pup — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oppugned. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, go and no. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, po, and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in oppugned and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
oppugned 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.
oppugned is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing oppugned unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is oppugned, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from oppugned 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 oppugned produce 94 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.