Hidden inside toppers 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 toppers 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 toppers: two come from rearranging its letters, and toppers 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.
Unscrambling toppers 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.
There are 32 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in toppers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poets, popes and props. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including popes, props and pepos.
Rearranging the letters in toppers produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pets, poet and pope. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including pope, pops and prop.
Unscrambling toppers turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with per, pet and pop. For points, the strongest plays are pep and pop — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in toppers. 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.
8 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in toppers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in toppers 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.
toppers 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 six senses for toppers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
toppers is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing toppers 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 toppers 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 toppers 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.