Hidden inside readopt sit adopter and readopt, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 195 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
adopter and readopt tie for the highest Scrabble score from readopt at 10 points. The top 10 of 195 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in readopt: one comes from rearranging its letters, and readopt 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 adopter and readopt, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling readopt 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 depart, deport, parted and 4 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 41 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in readopt. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adopt, adore and opera. For points, 16 words tie at 8 points, including adopt, taped and adept.
Rearranging the letters in readopt produces 65 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, date and dear. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including drop, aped and apod.
Unscrambling readopt turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and art. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including pad, dap and dep.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in readopt. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, at and do. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
16 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in readopt plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in readopt 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.
readopt 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
readopt is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing readopt unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are adopter and readopt, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from readopt 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 readopt produce 195 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 41 five-letter words, 65 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.