Hidden inside tophus sit tophus and upshot, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 87 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tophus and upshot tie for the highest Scrabble score from tophus at 11 points. The top 10 of 87 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in tophus: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tophus itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are tophus and upshot, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tophus. If a familiar word is all you need, start with shout and south. For points, the strongest plays are ouphs, phots, phuts, shtup, and tophs — 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 tophus produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hops, host, post, pots, push, puts, and shop. For points, the strongest plays are hops, ouph, phos, phot, phut, posh, push, shop, soph, and toph — 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 tophus turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hop, hot, out, pot, put, tho, and top. For points, the strongest plays are hop, hup, pho, pht, and poh — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tophus. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ho, oh, sh, so, to, uh, and up. For points, the strongest plays are ho, oh, sh, and uh — each worth 5 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 tophus and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
tophus 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 two senses for tophus. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
tophus is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tophus unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are tophus and upshot, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tophus 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 tophus produce 87 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.