Hidden inside centimeter sit centimeter and centimetre, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 192 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
centimeter and centimetre tie for the highest Scrabble score from centimeter at 14 points. The top 10 of 192 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in centimeter: one comes from rearranging its letters, and centimeter itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are centimeter and centimetre, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling centimeter produces exactly one nine-letter word: cementite. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in centimeter. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cementer, cerement, and recement, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in centimeter produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with teenier. For points, the strongest play is centime — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling centimeter turns up 43 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with center, entire, and recent. For points, the strongest plays are cement, cermet, emetic, icemen, metric, and mincer — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in centimeter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crime, enter, meter, nicer, and niece. For points, the strongest plays are creme, crime, emcee, and mince — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in centimeter produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, item, meet, mice, mine, mint, and nice. For points, the strongest plays are emic, merc, and mice — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling centimeter turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, men, met, net, ten, tie, and tin. For points, the strongest play is mic — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in centimeter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in centimeter plus one additional letter.
centimeter 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 3-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 centimeter. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
centimeter is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing centimeter unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are centimeter and centimetre, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from centimeter 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 centimeter produce 192 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 43 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.