Hidden inside pointer sit pointer, protein, repoint and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 149 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pointer, protein, repoint and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from pointer at 9 points. The top 10 of 149 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in pointer: three come from rearranging its letters, and pointer 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 pointer, protein, repoint, and tropine, 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 pointer turns up 9 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are orpine, pernio, pointe, protei, pterin, and tropin, 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 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pointer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with point and print. For points, the strongest plays are inept, netop, opine, orpin, pinot, pinto, piton, point, porin, print, prion, prone, repin, repot, ripen, toper, tripe, and trope — 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 pointer produces 49 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with into, iron, nope, note, open, poet, and porn. For points, the strongest plays are nope, open, pein, pent, peon, peri, pert, pier, pine, pint, pion, pirn, poet, pone, pore, porn, port, repo, ripe, rope, tope, topi, trip, and trop — 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 pointer turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with net, nor, not, one, pen, per, and pet. For points, the strongest plays are nip, ope, opt, pen, per, pet, pie, pin, pit, poi, pot, pro, rep, rip, 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pointer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, it, no, on, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, 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 pointer 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.
pointer 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 four senses for pointer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
pointer is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pointer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pointer, protein, repoint, and tropine, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pointer 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 pointer produce 149 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 49 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.