Hidden inside meriting sit meriting, mitering, and retiming, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 126 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
meriting, mitering, and retiming tie for the highest Scrabble score from meriting at 11 points. The top 10 of 126 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in meriting: two come from rearranging its letters, and meriting 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 meriting, mitering, and retiming, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in meriting produces 10 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 iteming, metring, mingier, mitring, and terming, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling meriting turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with timing and tinier. For points, the strongest plays are meting, miring, riming, and timing — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in meriting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genii and tiger. For points, the strongest play is grime — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in meriting produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with germ, item, mine, mint, rent, ring, and term. For points, the strongest plays are germ and grim — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling meriting turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with get, men, met, net, rig, ten, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are gem, meg, and mig — each worth 6 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 meriting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in meriting 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.
meriting 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.
meriting is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing meriting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are meriting, mitering, and retiming, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from meriting 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 meriting produce 126 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.