Hidden inside decimeter sit decimeter and decimetre, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 185 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
decimeter and decimetre tie for the highest Scrabble score from decimeter at 14 points. The top 10 of 185 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in decimeter: one comes from rearranging its letters, and decimeter itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are decimeter and decimetre, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in decimeter produces 10 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 demerit, dimeter, erected, merited, metered, mitered, recited, retimed, and tierced, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling decimeter turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with credit and direct. For points, the strongest plays are dermic and emceed — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 45 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decimeter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cried, crime, meter, tired, and tried. For points, the strongest plays are demic and medic — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in decimeter produces 58 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, dice, diet, dime, dirt, edit, and item. 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 decimeter turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ice, met, red, rid, and tie. 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 decimeter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, 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 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in decimeter plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in decimeter 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.
decimeter 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 decimeter. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
decimeter is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing decimeter unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are decimeter and decimetre, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from decimeter 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 decimeter produce 185 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 45 five-letter words, 58 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.