metaphors needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 744 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
metaphors is the highest-scoring word from metaphors, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 744 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in metaphors — and it is metaphors itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metaphors. If a familiar word is all you need, start with metaphor. For points, the strongest plays are apothems and metaphor — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in metaphors produces 26 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hamster, maestro, and mothers. For points, the strongest plays are apothem, empaths, and hampers — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling metaphors turns up 86 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hearts, master and mother. For points, the strongest plays are empath, hamper, and morphs — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 214 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metaphors. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atoms, earth and harms. For points, the strongest plays are hemps, morph, and pashm — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in metaphors produces 252 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahem, apes and arms. For points, the strongest play is hemp — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling metaphors turns up 128 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and arm. For points, 14 words tie at 8 points, including ham, hop and hap.
There are 33 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metaphors. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am and as. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in metaphors plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in metaphors 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.
metaphors 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 1-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 metaphors. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
metaphors is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing metaphors unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is metaphors, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from metaphors 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 metaphors produce 744 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 26 seven-letter words, 86 six-letter words, 214 five-letter words, 252 four-letter words, 128 three-letter words and 33 two-letter words.