Unscramble STOPS and you have 29 words, STOPS itself among them: it scores 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. STOPS has 2 anagrams here, POSTS and SPOTS, scoring 7 like STOPS itself. The 5 letters split into 1 vowel and 4 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Words from STOPS by length: 3 with 5 letters, 11 with 4, 9 with 3 and 6 with 2.
Keep every letter of STOPS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with ST · ending in PS · all 5-letter words
The meaning of STOPS, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
STOPS works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| STOPS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 29) | 27 | 29 | 24 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
3 of the 29 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: POS, PST and PO. 2 of the 29 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: POSS and ST.
With one more tile, the letters of STOPS spell the words below.