proponent needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 118 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
proponent is the highest-scoring word from proponent, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 118 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in proponent — and it is proponent itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling proponent produces exactly one eight-letter word: opponent. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in proponent produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is propone, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling proponent turns up 10 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are topper and troppo, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in proponent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with troop. For points, the strongest play is preop — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in proponent produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with none, noon and nope. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including poop, pope and prop.
Unscrambling proponent turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with net, nor and not. For points, the strongest plays are pep and pop — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in proponent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, on, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in proponent plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in proponent and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
proponent 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 4-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 proponent. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
proponent is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing proponent unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is proponent, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from proponent 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 proponent produce 118 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.