Hidden inside hectometre sit hectometer and hectometre, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 195 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hectometer and hectometre tie for the highest Scrabble score from hectometre at 17 points. The top 10 of 195 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in hectometre: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hectometre 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 hectometer and hectometre, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling hectometre produces exactly one nine-letter word: ectotherm. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hectometre. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is comether, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in hectometre produces 4 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 theorem and trochee, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling hectometre turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hotter, meteor, mother, and remote. For points, the strongest plays are chrome and cometh — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 46 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hectometre. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheer, chore, meter, other, teeth, theme, and there. For points, the strongest plays are chemo and merch — 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 hectometre produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with come, core, here, hero, home, meet, and meth. For points, the strongest plays are chem and mech — each 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 hectometre turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, hot, met, the, tho, and toe. For points, the strongest plays are hem, hom, meh, mho, och, and ohm — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hectometre. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hm, ho, me, oh, and or. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 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 hectometre plus one additional letter.
hectometre is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
Dictionaries record one sense for hectometre. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
hectometre is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hectometre unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hectometer and hectometre, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hectometre 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 hectometre produce 195 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 46 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.