unpopular needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 94 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
unpopular is the highest-scoring word from unpopular, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 94 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in unpopular — and it is unpopular itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling unpopular produces exactly one seven-letter word: popular. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unpopular. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is pupal, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in unpopular produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loan, oral and plan. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including prop, palp and plop.
Unscrambling unpopular turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lap, nap and nor. For points, the strongest plays are app, pap, pop, and pup — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unpopular. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, no and on. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, po, and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
unpopular 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 6-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 unpopular. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
unpopular is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing unpopular unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is unpopular, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from unpopular 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 unpopular produce 94 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.