popularity needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 315 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
popularity is the highest-scoring word from popularity, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 315 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in popularity — and it is popularity itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in popularity. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is pupilary, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in popularity produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with popular. For points, the strongest plays are platypi and propyla — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling popularity turns up 35 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with laptop, patrol, portal, and ritual. For points, 7 words tie at 13 points, including papyri, polypi and propyl.
There are 55 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in popularity. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apply, party and pilot. For points, 6 words tie at 12 points, including apply, lippy and loppy.
Rearranging the letters in popularity produces 108 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with auto, liar and oral. For points, the strongest plays are pipy and typp — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling popularity turns up 79 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, art and lap. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including pay, ply and pry.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in popularity. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, ay and it. For points, the strongest plays are ay, oy, ya, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
popularity 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 3-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 popularity. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
popularity is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing popularity unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is popularity, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from popularity 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 popularity produce 315 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 35 six-letter words, 55 five-letter words, 108 four-letter words, 79 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.