Hidden inside metastable sit metastable, stablemate, and tablemates, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 383 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
metastable, stablemate, and tablemates tie for the highest Scrabble score from metastable at 14 points. The top 10 of 383 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 ten-letter words hiding in metastable: two come from rearranging its letters, and metastable itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are metastable, stablemate, and tablemates, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling metastable turns up 5 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are embattles and tablemate, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metastable. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are blastema, embattle, lambaste, and tameable, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in metastable produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with battles. For points, the strongest plays are lambast and tamable — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling metastable turns up 42 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ablest, battle and blames. For points, 7 words tie at 10 points, including blames, ambles and amebae.
There are 102 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metastable. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beams, beast and beats. For points, 11 words tie at 9 points, including beams, blame and lambs.
Rearranging the letters in metastable produces 125 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, base and bats. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including beam, lamb and balm.
Unscrambling metastable turns up 62 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ate, bam and bat. For points, the strongest play is bam — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metastable. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as and at. For points, 7 words tie at 4 points, including am, be and me.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in metastable plus one additional letter.
metastable 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for metastable. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
metastable is one of three ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing metastable unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are metastable, stablemate, and tablemates, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from metastable 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 metastable produce 383 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 ten-letter words, 5 nine-letter words, 13 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 42 six-letter words, 102 five-letter words, 125 four-letter words, 62 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.