Hidden inside armet sit armet, mater, ramet and 1 other, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 50 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
armet, mater, ramet and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from armet at 7 points. The top 10 of 50 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 five-letter words hiding in armet: three come from rearranging its letters, and armet itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are armet, mater, ramet, and tamer, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in armet produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mate, meat and rate. For points, 11 words tie at 6 points, including mate, meat and team.
Unscrambling armet turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm and art. For points, 8 words tie at 5 points, including arm, met and mae.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in armet. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, at, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
23 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in armet plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in armet and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
armet 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 1-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 armet. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
armet is one of four five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing armet unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are armet, mater, ramet, and tamer, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from armet 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 armet produce 50 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.