Hidden inside proposes sit opposers and proposes, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 106 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
opposers and proposes tie for the highest Scrabble score from proposes at 12 points. The top 10 of 106 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in proposes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and proposes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with proposes. For points, the strongest plays are opposers and proposes — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in proposes produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with opposes and propose. For points, the strongest plays are opposer, opposes, oppress, and propose — 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 proposes turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with oppose. For points, the strongest plays are oppose and preops — 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 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in proposes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poops, popes, poses, press, props, ropes, and roses. For points, the strongest plays are oppos, pepos, perps, poops, 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 proposes produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with oops, poop, poor, poos, pope, pops, and pose. For points, the strongest plays are oppo, pepo, peps, perp, poop, 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 proposes turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with per, poo, 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 proposes. 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 proposes and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
proposes 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 five senses for proposes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
proposes is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing proposes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are opposers and proposes, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from proposes 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 proposes produce 106 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.