Hidden inside tipsters sit spitters and tipsters, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 184 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
spitters and tipsters tie for the highest Scrabble score from tipsters at 10 points. The top 10 of 184 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in tipsters: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tipsters itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are spitters and tipsters, 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 tipsters produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with priests, sitters, and stripes. For points, the strongest plays are esprits, persist, priests, sitreps, spitter, spriest, sprites, stirpes, stripes, and tipster — each 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 tipsters turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with priest, resist, sister, sitter, stripe, strips, and stript. For points, the strongest plays are esprit, pisser, pistes, prests, priest, prises, ripest, sitrep, speirs, spiers, spires, spirts, spites, sprite, sprits, stipes, stirps, streps, stripe, strips, stript, and tripes — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tipsters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with press, rests, rises, sites, spies, spits, and steps. For points, the strongest plays are peris, pests, petit, petti, piers, piste, press, prest, pries, prise, priss, ripes, septs, sipes, speir, spier, spies, spire, spirt, spite, spits, sprit, steps, stipe, stirp, strep, strip, tripe, and trips — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tipsters produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pets, pies, pits, psst, reps, rest, and rips. For points, the strongest plays are peri, pert, pest, pets, pier, pies, piss, pits, psis, psst, reps, ripe, rips, seps, sept, sipe, sips, spit, step, tips, and trip — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tipsters turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, per, pet, pie, pit, rep, and rip. For points, the strongest plays are per, pes, pet, pie, pis, pit, psi, pst, rep, rip, sip, and tip — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tipsters. 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in tipsters 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.
tipsters 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 tipsters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
tipsters is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tipsters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are spitters and tipsters, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tipsters 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 tipsters produce 184 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.