showstopper needs no unscrambling at all — the eleven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 21 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 563 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
showstopper is the highest-scoring word from showstopper, worth 21 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 563 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eleven-letter word uses the letters in showstopper — and it is showstopper itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 21 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling showstopper turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is hoopsters, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 24 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in showstopper. If a familiar word is all you need, start with proposes. For points, the strongest play is whoppers — worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in showstopper produces 46 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with opposes, poorest and posters. For points, the strongest play is whopper — worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling showstopper turns up 97 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with horses, oppose and others. For points, the strongest play is whoops — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 149 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in showstopper. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hoops, hopes and horse. For points, the strongest plays are whoop and whops — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in showstopper produces 143 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with oops, owes and pets. For points, the strongest plays are phew and whop — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling showstopper turns up 79 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, hop and hot. For points, the strongest plays are hew, how, and who — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in showstopper. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, ew and he. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including eh, ew and he.
1 twelve-letter word can be made using all the letters in showstopper plus one additional letter.
showstopper 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 1-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 showstopper. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 21 points on a Scrabble board:
showstopper is the only eleven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing showstopper unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is showstopper, worth 21 points in Scrabble, and no other word from showstopper 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 showstopper produce 563 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eleven-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 24 eight-letter words, 46 seven-letter words, 97 six-letter words, 149 five-letter words, 143 four-letter words, 79 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.