Hidden inside popes sit pepos and popes, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 26 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pepos and popes tie for the highest Scrabble score from popes at 9 points. The top 10 of 26 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in popes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and popes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with popes. For points, the strongest plays are pepos and popes — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in popes produces 8 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pope, pops, and pose. For points, the strongest plays are pepo, peps, pope, and pops — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in popes and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
popes 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 two senses for popes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
popes is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing popes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pepos and popes, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from popes 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 popes produce 26 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.