Hidden inside limiter sit limiter and miltier, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 71 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
limiter and miltier tie for the highest Scrabble score from limiter at 9 points. The top 10 of 71 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in limiter: one comes from rearranging its letters, and limiter itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are limiter and miltier, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling limiter turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are limier, milter, and mitier, 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 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in limiter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with limit. For points, the strongest plays are limit, merit, miler, miter, mitre, remit, and timer — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in limiter produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, melt, mile, term, time, tire, and trim. For points, the strongest plays are emir, emit, item, lime, melt, merl, mile, milt, mire, miri, mite, rime, term, time, trem, and trim — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling limiter turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with let, lie, lit, met, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are elm, mel, met, mil, mir, rem, and rim — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in limiter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with 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.
Swap a single tile in limiter and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
limiter 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 limiter. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
limiter is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing limiter unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are limiter and miltier, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from limiter 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 limiter produce 71 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.