OPE is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. OPE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 6 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept OPE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 58 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OPE is to know. It scores 5 from 3 tiles, takes 12 hooks, and its letters make up 7.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OPE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How OPE scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in OPE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 842.
What does OPE mean in Scrabble?
verb
poeticarchaic
To open something, in poetry and older verse.
Ope is open with the ending filed off, and poets did the filing: it saves a syllable, which in metrical verse is the whole reason a word survives. It reads now as deliberately old — nobody says ope by accident — and it turns up mostly in quotation and in hymn books.
How OPE is used
Inflects like open in verse: opes, oped. Not used in ordinary modern prose.
- Ope the gate and let the morning in.
- The poet opes a door that was never shut.
- She read a line where the flowers ope at dawn.
- Ope thine eyes, the chorus repeats.
- The hymn asks that the gates ope wide.
- He wrote ope to save a syllable and the editor left it.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OPE and 6 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with OPE
Showing 24 of 111 words that begin with OPE.
Words ending in OPE
Showing 24 of 202 words that end in OPE. Useful as a back hook: play OPE onto a word already on the board.
Words with OPE inside
Showing 24 of 828 words that contain OPE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with OPE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in OPE
Common questions about OPE
- Is OPE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OPE, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OPE worth?
- OPE is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OPE mean?
- To open something, in poetry and older verse.
- What letters can be added to OPE?
- OPE takes 12 hooks: 9 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of OPE:
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