littermate needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 302 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
littermate is the highest-scoring word from littermate, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 302 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in littermate — and it is littermate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling littermate turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are altimeter and tiltmeter, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in littermate. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are materiel and remittal, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in littermate produces 22 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 emailer, emerita, emirate and 9 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling littermate turns up 41 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with letter, matter, and relate. For points, 21 words tie at 8 points, including matter, armlet and elmier.
There are 64 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in littermate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter and email. For points, 27 words tie at 7 points, including email, lamer and metal.
Rearranging the letters in littermate produces 91 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, lame and late. For points, 42 words tie at 6 points, including item, lame and mail.
Unscrambling littermate turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air and are. For points, 17 words tie at 5 points, including aim, arm and met.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in littermate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, at, it, and me. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in littermate plus one additional letter.
littermate 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.
littermate is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing littermate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is littermate, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from littermate 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 littermate produce 302 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 22 seven-letter words, 41 six-letter words, 64 five-letter words, 91 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.