Hidden inside propers sit propers and prosper, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 75 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
propers and prosper tie for the highest Scrabble score from propers at 11 points. The top 10 of 75 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in propers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and propers 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 propers and prosper, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling propers turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with proper. For points, the strongest plays are preops and proper — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in propers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with popes, props, ropes, and sorer. For points, the strongest plays are pepos, perps, popes, preop, preps, props, and repps — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in propers produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pope, pops, pose, prop, pros, reps, and rope. For points, the strongest plays are pepo, peps, perp, pope, pops, prep, prop, and repp — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling propers turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with per, pop, pro, and rep. For points, the strongest plays are pep and pop — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in propers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or and so. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, 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 propers 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.
propers 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 propers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
propers is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing propers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are propers and prosper, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from propers 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 propers produce 75 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.