Hidden inside geometries sit geometries and geometrise, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 421 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
geometries and geometrise tie for the highest Scrabble score from geometries at 13 points. The top 10 of 421 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in geometries: one comes from rearranging its letters, and geometries 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 geometries and geometrise, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling geometries produces exactly one nine-letter word: geometers. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in geometries. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ergotism, geometer, and germiest, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in geometries produces 29 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with emerges, meteors, moister, and remotes. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including emerges, egotism and emigres.
Unscrambling geometries turns up 63 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with emerge, greets and merges. For points, 12 words tie at 9 points, including emerge, merges and egoism.
There are 113 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in geometries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with geese, germs and greet. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including germs, merge and emerg.
Rearranging the letters in geometries produces 116 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egos, germ and gets. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including germ, gems and gorm.
Unscrambling geometries turns up 70 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, gee and get. For points, the strongest plays are gem, meg, mig, and mog — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in geometries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, is and it. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including me, em and mi.
4 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in geometries plus one additional letter.
geometries 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 geometries. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
geometries is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing geometries unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are geometries and geometrise, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from geometries 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 geometries produce 421 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 1 nine-letter word, 5 eight-letter words, 29 seven-letter words, 63 six-letter words, 113 five-letter words, 116 four-letter words, 70 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.