Hidden inside propel sit lopper and propel, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 42 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble POERPL, REPPLO or PPORLE and you get the same 6 letters as PROPEL: so the words from PROPEL listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
lopper and propel tie for the highest Scrabble score from propel at 10 points. The top 10 of 42 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in propel: one comes from rearranging its letters, and propel itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lopper and propel, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in propel. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is preop, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in propel produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pole, pope and prop. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including pope, prop and pepo.
Unscrambling propel turns up 12 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.
5 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in propel plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in propel and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
propel 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 propel. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
propel is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing propel unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lopper and propel, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from propel 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 propel produce 42 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.