mealtime needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 113 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mealtime is the highest-scoring word from mealtime, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 113 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in mealtime — and it is mealtime itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mealtime. If a familiar word is all you need, start with email and metal. For points, the strongest plays are emmet, lemma, mamee, and mamie — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mealtime produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, lame and late. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including imam, maim and malm.
Unscrambling mealtime turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ate and eat. For points, the strongest plays are mam, mem, and mim — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mealtime. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, at, it, and me. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in mealtime plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mealtime 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.
mealtime 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 3-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 mealtime. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
mealtime is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mealtime unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is mealtime, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from mealtime 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 mealtime produce 113 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.