altimeter needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 288 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
altimeter is the highest-scoring word from altimeter, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 288 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in altimeter — and it is altimeter itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in altimeter. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are materiel and remittal, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in altimeter produces 17 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are emailer, emerita, emirate and 9 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling altimeter turns up 34 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with letter, matter, and relate. For points, 21 words tie at 8 points, including matter, armlet and elmier.
There are 64 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in altimeter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter and email. For points, 27 words tie at 7 points, including email, lamer and metal.
Rearranging the letters in altimeter produces 91 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, lame and late. For points, 42 words tie at 6 points, including item, lame and mail.
Unscrambling altimeter turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air and are. For points, 17 words tie at 5 points, including aim, arm and met.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in altimeter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, at, it, and me. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in altimeter plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in altimeter and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
altimeter 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 2-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 altimeter. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
altimeter is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing altimeter unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is altimeter, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from altimeter 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 altimeter produce 288 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 34 six-letter words, 64 five-letter words, 91 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.