Hidden inside stopover sit overtops and stopover, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 185 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
overtops and stopover tie for the highest Scrabble score from stopover at 13 points. The top 10 of 185 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in stopover: one comes from rearranging its letters, and stopover 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 overtops and stopover, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in stopover produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poorest. For points, the strongest plays are overtop and provost — 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 stopover turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poster, proves, troops, and voters. For points, the strongest plays are pervos and proves — 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 51 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stopover. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poets, prove, roots, ropes, sport, store, and troop. For points, the strongest plays are pervo, pervs, and prove — 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 stopover produces 60 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with oops, over, pets, poet, poor, poos, and pose. For points, the strongest play is perv — 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 stopover turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with per, pet, poo, pot, pro, rep, and set. For points, the strongest plays are rev, sev, vet, and voe — each worth 6 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 stopover. 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 stopover 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.
stopover 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 two senses for stopover. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
stopover is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing stopover unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are overtops and stopover, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from stopover 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 stopover produce 185 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 51 five-letter words, 60 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.