Hidden inside stopper sit popster, stopper, and toppers, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 138 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
popster, stopper, and toppers tie for the highest Scrabble score from stopper at 11 points. The top 10 of 138 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in stopper: two come from rearranging its letters, and stopper itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are 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 stopper turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poster. 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 32 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stopper. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poets, popes, props, ropes, sport, and store. 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 stopper produces 48 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 stopper turns up 32 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 stopper. 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 stopper and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
stopper 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 stopper. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
stopper is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing stopper unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are popster, stopper, and toppers, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from stopper 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 stopper produce 138 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 32 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.