Hidden inside ammeters sit ammeters and metamers, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 218 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ammeters and metamers tie for the highest Scrabble score from ammeters at 12 points. The top 10 of 218 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in ammeters: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ammeters itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ammeters and metamers, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ammeters produces 7 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 ammeter, metamer, stammer, and stemmer, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ammeters turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easter, master, and meters. For points, the strongest plays are emmers, emmets, mamees, and stemma — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 57 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ammeters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erase, mates and meats. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including emmer, emmet and mamee.
Rearranging the letters in ammeters produces 68 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arms, arts and ears. For points, the strongest plays are mams, meme, and mems — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ammeters turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm and art. For points, the strongest plays are mam and mem — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ammeters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, and me. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in ammeters plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ammeters and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
ammeters 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 ammeters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
ammeters is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ammeters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ammeters and metamers, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ammeters 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 ammeters produce 218 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 57 five-letter words, 68 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.