Hidden inside stopping sit stopping and toppings, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 144 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
stopping and toppings tie for the highest Scrabble score from stopping at 13 points. The top 10 of 144 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in stopping: one comes from rearranging its letters, and stopping itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stopping. For points, the strongest plays are stopping and toppings — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in stopping produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with posting and topping. For points, the strongest plays are sopping and topping — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling stopping turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with points and posing. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including posing, gipons and opting.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stopping. If a familiar word is all you need, start with point and sting. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including gipon, oping and pingo.
Rearranging the letters in stopping produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with into, pigs and pins. For points, the strongest plays are pips and pops — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling stopping turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with got, its and not. For points, the strongest plays are pip and pop — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stopping. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in and is. For points, the strongest plays are op, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in stopping plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in stopping 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.
stopping 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 4-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 stopping. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
stopping is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing stopping unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are stopping and toppings, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from stopping 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 stopping produce 144 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.