stopgaps needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 112 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
stopgaps is the highest-scoring word from stopgaps, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 112 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in stopgaps — and it is stopgaps itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling stopgaps produces exactly one seven-letter word: stopgap. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stopgaps. If a familiar word is all you need, start with goats, pasts and posts. For points, the strongest play is gasps — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in stopgaps produces 44 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gaps, goat and pass. For points, the strongest plays are apps, paps, and pops — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling stopgaps turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, ass and gap. For points, the strongest plays are app, pap, and pop — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stopgaps. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and go. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in stopgaps plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in stopgaps 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.
stopgaps 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 one sense for stopgaps. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
stopgaps is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing stopgaps unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is stopgaps, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from stopgaps 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 stopgaps produce 112 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 17 five-letter words, 44 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.