Hidden inside pota is one standout: atop, a four-letter play worth 6 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 17 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble APTO, AOTP or PTOA and you get the same 4 letters as POTA: so the words from POTA listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
POTA isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to ATOP (adjective), being on or at the top, worth 6 points in Scrabble.
atop is the highest-scoring word from pota, worth 6 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 17 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling pota produces exactly one four-letter word: atop. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 6 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in pota and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is atop, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pota 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 pota produce 17 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 four-letter word, 10 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.