metabolism needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 652 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
metabolism is the highest-scoring word from metabolism, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 652 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in metabolism — and it is metabolism itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling metabolism turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ammolites and immolates, 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 metabolism. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is embolism, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in metabolism produces 37 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with isolate. For points, the strongest plays are embalms, imbalms, and mamboes — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling metabolism turns up 70 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ablest, almost, blames, emails, lamest, limbos, and metals. For points, the strongest plays are embalm, imbalm, and mambos — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 169 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metabolism. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, atoms, bails, baits, beams, beast, and beats. For points, the strongest play is mambo — 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 metabolism produces 224 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, aims, also, atom, bail, bait, and base. For points, the strongest plays are ambo, ammo, balm, bams, beam, bema, bima, blam, lamb, limb, mabe, maim, malm, mams, memo, mems, mibs, mime, mobs, mome, momi, moms, iamb, imam, and tomb — 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 metabolism turns up 105 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ate, bam, bat, bet, bit, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are bam, mam, mem, mib, mim, mob, and mom — 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 35 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metabolism. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, be, 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.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in metabolism plus one additional letter.
metabolism 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 4-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 metabolism. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
metabolism is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing metabolism unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is metabolism, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from metabolism 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 metabolism produce 652 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 37 seven-letter words, 70 six-letter words, 169 five-letter words, 224 four-letter words, 105 three-letter words and 35 two-letter words.