Hidden inside soapstones sit postseason and soapstones, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 365 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
postseason and soapstones tie for the highest Scrabble score from soapstones at 12 points. The top 10 of 365 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in soapstones: one comes from rearranging its letters, and soapstones itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are postseason and soapstones, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling soapstones 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 words are soapstone and teaspoons, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in soapstones. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pastness, stepsons, and teaspoon, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in soapstones produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with seasons. For points, the strongest plays are aptness, pantses, patness, petasos, possets, sapotes, stepson, and teopans — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling soapstones turns up 42 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with passes, sanest, season, spoons, stones, and tosses. For points, the strongest plays are aspens, estops, netops, paeons, pantos, paseos, passes, pastes, patens, pestos, pontes, posses, posset, ptoses, sapote, sneaps, snoops, spates, speans, spoons, stapes, stoops, stopes, and teopan — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 96 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in soapstones. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asses, nests, noses, notes, opens, pants, and pasts. For points, the strongest plays are apses, aspen, estop, napes, neaps, netop, opens, paeon, panes, panto, pants, paseo, pases, passe, paste, pasts, paten, pates, peans, peats, peons, pesos, pesto, pests, poets, pones, poons, poses, posse, posts, psoae, psoas, septa, septs, snaps, sneap, snoop, soaps, spaes, spans, spate, spats, spean, spent, spoon, spots, steps, stoop, stope, stops, tapes, tepas, topes, and topos — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in soapstones produces 119 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, apes, naps, neat, nest, nets, and nope. For points, the strongest plays are apes, apos, apse, asps, atop, nape, naps, neap, nope, oops, opas, open, opes, opts, pane, pans, pant, pase, pass, past, pate, pats, pean, peas, peat, pens, pent, peon, peso, pest, pets, poet, pone, pons, poon, poos, pose, post, pots, psst, saps, seps, sept, snap, soap, sops, spae, span, spas, spat, spot, step, stop, epos, tape, taps, tepa, tope, topo, and tops — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling soapstones turns up 67 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ape, ass, ate, eat, nap, and net. For points, the strongest plays are ape, apo, apt, asp, nap, opa, ope, ops, opt, pan, pas, pat, pea, pen, pes, pet, poo, pos, pot, pst, sap, sop, spa, tap, and top — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in soapstones. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, no, on, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, 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.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in soapstones plus one additional letter.
soapstones 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 one sense for soapstones. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
soapstones is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing soapstones unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are postseason and soapstones, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from soapstones 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 soapstones produce 365 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 42 six-letter words, 96 five-letter words, 119 four-letter words, 67 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.