stoppages 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, 273 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
stoppages is the highest-scoring word from stoppages, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 273 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in stoppages — and it is stoppages 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 stoppages. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are stopgaps and stoppage, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in stoppages produces 8 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pegtops and stopgap, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling stoppages turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stages. For points, the strongest play is pegtop — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 65 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stoppages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gases, gates and goats. For points, the strongest plays are pepos and popes — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in stoppages produces 98 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, apes and east. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including pope, pops and apps.
Unscrambling stoppages turns up 65 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago and ape. For points, the strongest plays are app, pap, pep, and pop — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stoppages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and go. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in stoppages plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in stoppages 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.
stoppages 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 three senses for stoppages. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
stoppages is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing stoppages unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is stoppages, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from stoppages 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 stoppages produce 273 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 65 five-letter words, 98 four-letter words, 65 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.