whoops needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 55 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
whoops is the highest-scoring word from whoops, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 55 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in whoops — and it is whoops itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in whoops. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hoops and whoop. For points, the strongest plays are whoop and whops — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in whoops produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hoop, hops and oops. For points, the strongest play is whop — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling whoops turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hop, how and oho. For points, the strongest plays are how and who — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in whoops plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in whoops 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.
whoops 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in whoops carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
whoops is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing whoops unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is whoops, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from whoops 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 whoops produce 55 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 8 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.