Hidden inside metalists sit metalists and smaltites, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 390 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
metalists and smaltites tie for the highest Scrabble score from metalists at 11 points. The top 10 of 390 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in metalists: one comes from rearranging its letters, and metalists 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 metalists and smaltites, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metalists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with saltiest. For points, the strongest plays are etatisms, maltiest, metalist, misstate, and smaltite — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in metalists produces 17 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 aimless, etatism, matiest, matless, miseats, misseat, samiels, samiest, samites, samlets, seismal, statism, and tamises, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling metalists turns up 52 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisles, emails, lamest, latest, lattes, metals, and smiles. For points, the strongest plays are emails, lamest, mailes, maists, mattes, mesial, metals, misate, miseat, missal, missel, misset, salmis, samiel, samite, samlet, slimes, smalti, smalts, smelts, smiles, smites, steams, stimes, tamest, and tmesis — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 110 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metalists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, email, items, lasts, latte, least, and lists. For points, the strongest plays are almes, amies, amiss, email, emits, items, lames, limas, limes, maile, mails, maist, males, malts, mases, masse, masts, mates, matte, matts, meals, meats, melts, mesas, metal, metis, miles, milts, mises, mists, mites, mitts, salmi, satem, seams, seism, semis, simas, slams, slime, slims, smalt, smelt, smile, smite, steam, stems, stime, stims, tames, tamis, teams, and times — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in metalists produces 121 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, lame, last, late, less, lets, and lies. For points, the strongest plays are aims, alme, alms, amie, amis, lame, lams, lima, lime, maes, mail, male, malt, mass, mast, mate, mats, matt, meal, meat, mels, melt, mesa, mess, meta, mile, mils, milt, mise, miss, mist, mite, mitt, same, seam, semi, sima, sims, slam, slim, smit, stem, stim, elms, emit, isms, item, tame, tams, team, and time — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling metalists turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ass, ate, eat, its, let, and lie. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ami, elm, ems, ism, lam, mae, mas, mat, mel, mes, met, mil, mis, sim, and tam — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metalists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, is, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, 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.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in metalists plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in metalists 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.
metalists 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.
metalists is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing metalists unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are metalists and smaltites, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from metalists 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 metalists produce 390 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 52 six-letter words, 110 five-letter words, 121 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.