Hidden inside propels sit loppers and propels, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 108 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
loppers and propels tie for the highest Scrabble score from propels at 11 points. The top 10 of 108 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in propels: one comes from rearranging its letters, and propels 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 loppers and propels, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling propels 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 lopper, peplos, preops, and propel, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in propels. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loser, poles and popes. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including popes, props and pepos.
Rearranging the letters in propels produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lose, pole and pope. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including pope, pops and prop.
Unscrambling propels turns up 25 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.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in propels. 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.
5 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in propels plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in propels 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.
propels 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for propels. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
propels is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing propels unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are loppers and propels, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from propels 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 propels produce 108 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.