Hidden inside isometric sit eroticism and isometric, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 340 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
eroticism and isometric tie for the highest Scrabble score from isometric at 13 points. The top 10 of 340 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in isometric: one comes from rearranging its letters, and isometric 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 eroticism and isometric, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in isometric. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are comities, isomeric, meristic and 5 more, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in isometric produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with moister. For points, 7 words tie at 11 points, including meiotic, metrics and miotics.
Unscrambling isometric turns up 41 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cities, crimes and erotic. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including crimes, sitcom and comers.
There are 91 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in isometric. If a familiar word is all you need, start with comes, cores and cries. For points, 12 words tie at 9 points, including comes, crime and comer.
Rearranging the letters in isometric produces 101 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with come, core and cost. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including come, mice and corm.
Unscrambling isometric turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, its and met. For points, the strongest plays are mic and moc — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in isometric. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it and me. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including me, em and mi.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in isometric plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in isometric 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.
isometric 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 five senses for isometric. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
isometric is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing isometric unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are eroticism and isometric, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from isometric 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 isometric produce 340 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 41 six-letter words, 91 five-letter words, 101 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.