Hidden inside kilometers sit kilometers and kilometres, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 639 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
kilometers and kilometres tie for the highest Scrabble score from kilometers at 16 points. The top 10 of 639 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in kilometers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and kilometers 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 kilometers and kilometres, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling kilometers turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are kilometer and kilometre, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in kilometers. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are meiklest and stemlike, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in kilometers produces 50 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meteors, moister, omelets, and remotes. For points, the strongest plays are irksome, meikler, milkers, mirkest, and smokier — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling kilometers turns up 99 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meteor, meters, molest, motels, omelet, relies, and remote. For points, the strongest plays are kelims, kermes, kermis, kismet, meikle, milker, smoker, and smokie — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 181 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in kilometers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, kites, likes, limos, loser, meets, and melts. For points, the strongest plays are kelim, merks, mikes, milks, mirks, mokes, skelm, smeek, smerk, smirk, and smoke — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in kilometers produces 187 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lets, lies, like, limo, list, lose, and lost. For points, the strongest plays are meek, merk, mike, milk, mirk, moke, mosk, and skim — 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 kilometers turns up 85 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, kit, let, lie, lit, lot, and met. For points, the strongest plays are eek, eke, elk, ilk, irk, kir, kis, kit, koi, kor, kos, lek, oik, oke, ski, and tsk — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in kilometers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, me, ok, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ki and ok — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
kilometers 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 kilometers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
kilometers is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing kilometers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are kilometers and kilometres, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from kilometers 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 kilometers produce 639 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 3 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 50 seven-letter words, 99 six-letter words, 181 five-letter words, 187 four-letter words, 85 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.