Hidden inside mealiest sit mealiest and metalise, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 287 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mealiest and metalise tie for the highest Scrabble score from mealiest at 10 points. The top 10 of 287 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in mealiest: one comes from rearranging its letters, and mealiest itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mealiest and metalise, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mealiest produces 3 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 elmiest, mealies, and steamie, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mealiest turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with emails, lamest, and metals. For points, 14 words tie at 8 points, including emails, lamest and metals.
There are 72 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mealiest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, email and items. For points, 39 words tie at 7 points, including email, items and mails.
Rearranging the letters in mealiest produces 110 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, lame and last. For points, 50 words tie at 6 points, including aims, lame and mail.
Unscrambling mealiest turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ate and eat. For points, 17 words tie at 5 points, including aim, met and ami.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mealiest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as and at. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
16 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in mealiest plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mealiest and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
mealiest 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.
mealiest is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mealiest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mealiest and metalise, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mealiest 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 mealiest produce 287 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 72 five-letter words, 110 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.