meantimes needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 325 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
meantimes is the highest-scoring word from meantimes, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 325 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in meantimes — and it is meantimes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in meantimes. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: meantime, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in meantimes produces 19 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meanest. For points, 8 words tie at 11 points, including ammines, immense and meatmen.
Unscrambling meantimes turns up 39 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ammine, emmets, immane and 5 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 83 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in meantimes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eaten, items and mates. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including emmet, imams and maims.
Rearranging the letters in meantimes produces 98 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, amen and ants. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including imam, maim and mams.
Unscrambling meantimes turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ant and ate. For points, the strongest plays are mam, mem, and mim — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in meantimes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and as. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in meantimes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in meantimes and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
meantimes 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 two senses for meantimes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
meantimes is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing meantimes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is meantimes, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from meantimes 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 meantimes produce 325 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 19 seven-letter words, 39 six-letter words, 83 five-letter words, 98 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.