Hidden inside plopping sit plopping and poppling, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. Short on board space? lopping matches that same 12-point score in Scrabble while spending only seven letters — the efficient pick when the long play won't fit. In all, 52 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
plopping, poppling, and lopping tie for the highest Scrabble score from plopping at 12 points. The top 10 of 52 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in plopping: one comes from rearranging its letters, and plopping itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are plopping and poppling, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in plopping produces 2 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with popping. For points, the strongest play is lopping — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in plopping. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gipon, oping, and pingo, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in plopping produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lion and long. For points, the strongest play is plop — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling plopping turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lip, log and oil. For points, the strongest plays are pip and pop — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in plopping. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are op, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in plopping 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.
plopping 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.
plopping is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing plopping unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are plopping, poppling, and lopping, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from plopping 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 plopping produce 52 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.