Hidden inside stoppers sit popsters and stoppers, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 192 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
popsters and stoppers tie for the highest Scrabble score from stoppers at 12 points. The top 10 of 192 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in stoppers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and stoppers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are popsters and stoppers, 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 stoppers produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with posters. For points, the strongest plays are oppress, popster, stopper, and toppers — 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 stoppers turns up 29 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poster, sorest, sports, and stores. For points, the strongest plays are preops and topper — 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 48 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stoppers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poets, popes, poses, posts, press, props, and rests. For points, the strongest plays are pepos, perps, 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 stoppers produces 57 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pets, poet, pope, pops, pose, post, and pots. For points, the strongest plays are pepo, peps, perp, 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 stoppers turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with per, pet, pop, pot, pro, rep, and set. 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stoppers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, so, and to. 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 stoppers 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.
stoppers 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 stoppers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
stoppers is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing stoppers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are popsters and stoppers, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from stoppers 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 stoppers produce 192 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 29 six-letter words, 48 five-letter words, 57 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.