Hidden inside options sit options and potions, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 114 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
options and potions tie for the highest Scrabble score from options at 9 points. The top 10 of 114 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in options: one comes from rearranging its letters, and options itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with options. For points, the strongest plays are options and potions — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling options turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with option, points, and poison. For points, the strongest plays are option, pinots, pintos, piston, pitons, points, poison, postin, potion, and spinto — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in options. If a familiar word is all you need, start with point and spoon. For points, the strongest plays are inspo, opsin, pinot, pinto, pints, pions, piton, point, poons, posit, snoop, spoon, stoop, topis, topoi, and topos — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in options produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with into, onto, oops, pins, pits, poos, and post. For points, the strongest plays are nips, oops, opts, pins, pint, pion, piso, pits, pois, pons, poon, poos, post, pots, snip, spin, spit, spot, stop, tips, topi, topo, and tops — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling options turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, not, pin, pit, poo, pot, and sin. For points, the strongest plays are nip, ops, opt, pin, pis, pit, poi, poo, pos, pot, psi, pst, sip, sop, tip, and top — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in options. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, no, on, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pi, and po — 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 options 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.
options 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 three senses for options. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
options is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing options unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are options and potions, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from options 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 options produce 114 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.