Hidden inside oppugns sit oppugns and popguns, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 61 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
oppugns and popguns tie for the highest Scrabble score from oppugns at 12 points. The top 10 of 61 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in oppugns: one comes from rearranging its letters, and oppugns itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are oppugns and popguns, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling oppugns turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are oppugn and popgun, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oppugns. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pongs and pungs, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in oppugns produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guns, pops, song, soup, spun, sung, and upon. For points, the strongest plays are pops and pups — 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 oppugns turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gun, pop, son, and sun. For points, the strongest plays are pop and pup — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oppugns. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, no, on, so, up, and us. For points, the strongest plays are op, po, and up — 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 oppugns and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
oppugns 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 one sense for oppugns. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
oppugns is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing oppugns unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are oppugns and popguns, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from oppugns 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 oppugns produce 61 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.