Hidden inside jeopardise sit jeopardies and jeopardise, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 20 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 553 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
jeopardies and jeopardise tie for the highest Scrabble score from jeopardise at 20 points. The top 10 of 553 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in jeopardise: one comes from rearranging its letters, and jeopardise itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are jeopardies and jeopardise, each worth 20 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in jeopardise. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is jeopards, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in jeopardise produces 24 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diapers, episode, periods, and praised. For points, the strongest play is jeopard — worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling jeopardise turns up 83 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adores, desire, diaper, easier, erased, operas, and period. For points, the strongest plays are japers and jasper — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 163 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in jeopardise. If a familiar word is all you need, start with opera, pairs, posed, pride, radio, raise, and reads. For points, the strongest play is japed — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in jeopardise produces 161 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs, apes, pads, paid, pair, and peas. For points, the strongest plays are jape and jeep — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling jeopardise turns up 88 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, air, ape, are, die, and dip. For points, the strongest plays are aji, jar, jee, joe, and raj — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in jeopardise. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, do, id, is, or, and so. For points, the strongest play is jo — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in jeopardise plus one additional letter.
jeopardise 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 3-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 jeopardise. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 20 points on a Scrabble board:
jeopardise is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing jeopardise unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are jeopardies and jeopardise, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from jeopardise 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 jeopardise produce 553 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 24 seven-letter words, 83 six-letter words, 163 five-letter words, 161 four-letter words, 88 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.