tossups needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 62 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tossups is the highest-scoring word from tossups, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 62 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in tossups — and it is tossups itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tossups turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are spouts, stoups, tossup, and uptoss, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tossups. If a familiar word is all you need, start with posts, soups, spots, and stops. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including posts, soups and spots.
Rearranging the letters in tossups produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with post, pots and psst. For points, 15 words tie at 6 points, including post, pots and psst.
Unscrambling tossups turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with out, pot, put, and top. For points, 13 words tie at 5 points, including pot, put and top.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tossups. If a familiar word is all you need, start with so, to, up, and us. For points, the strongest plays are op, po, and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in tossups plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tossups 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.
tossups 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 one sense for tossups. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
tossups is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tossups unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tossups, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tossups 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 tossups produce 62 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.