Hidden inside tipster sit spitter and tipster, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 123 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
spitter and tipster tie for the highest Scrabble score from tipster at 9 points. The top 10 of 123 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in tipster: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tipster 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 spitter and tipster, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tipster turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with priest, sitter, stripe, and stript. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including priest, stripe and stript.
There are 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tipster. If a familiar word is all you need, start with strip, tires, tries, and trips. For points, 21 words tie at 7 points, including strip, trips and peris.
Rearranging the letters in tipster produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pets, pies and pits. For points, 16 words tie at 6 points, including pets, pies and pits.
Unscrambling tipster turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, per and pet. For points, 12 words tie at 5 points, including per, pet and pie.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tipster. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is and it. For points, the strongest plays are pe and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
11 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in tipster plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tipster 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.
tipster 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for tipster. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
tipster is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tipster unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are spitter and tipster, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tipster 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 tipster produce 123 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.