stopovers needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 255 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
stopovers is the highest-scoring word from stopovers, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 255 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in stopovers — and it is stopovers itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stopovers. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are overtops, provosts, 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 stopovers produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poorest and posters. 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 stopovers turns up 47 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poster, proves, sorest, sports, stores, 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 69 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stopovers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poets, poses, posts, press, prove, rests, and roots. 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 stopovers produces 70 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 stopovers turns up 40 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 stopovers. 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 stopovers and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
stopovers 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 stopovers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
stopovers is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing stopovers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is stopovers, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from stopovers 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 stopovers produce 255 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 47 six-letter words, 69 five-letter words, 70 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.