Hidden inside meristems sit meristems and mesmerist, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 249 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
meristems and mesmerist tie for the highest Scrabble score from meristems at 13 points. The top 10 of 249 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in meristems: one comes from rearranging its letters, and meristems itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are meristems and mesmerist, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in meristems. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are immerses, meristem, mismeets, misterms, stemmers, and stemmier, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in meristems produces 19 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with messier. For points, the strongest plays are immerse, mimeses, mismeet, misterm, simmers, stemmer, and tsimmes — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling meristems turns up 42 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meters, resist, series, sister, and steers. For points, the strongest plays are emmers, emmets, mimers, mismet, and simmer — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 67 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in meristems. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, meets, meter, rests, rises, seems, and sites. For points, the strongest plays are emmer, emmet, memes, mimer, and mimes — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in meristems produces 63 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, meet, mess, miss, rest, rise, and seem. For points, the strongest plays are meme, mems, and mime — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling meristems turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, met, see, set, sir, sit, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are mem and mim — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in meristems. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, and me. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
10 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in meristems plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in meristems 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.
meristems 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 meristems. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
meristems is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing meristems unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are meristems and mesmerist, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from meristems 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 meristems produce 249 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 19 seven-letter words, 42 six-letter words, 67 five-letter words, 63 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.