metastasis needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 237 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
metastasis is the highest-scoring word from metastasis, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 237 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in metastasis — and it is metastasis itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling metastasis produces exactly one nine-letter word: misstates. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metastasis. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are etatisms, massiest, misseats, misstate, and statisms, 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 metastasis 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 amasses, etatism, matiest, miseats, misseat, missets, samiest, samites, stasima, statism, tamises, and tatamis, 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 metastasis turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with assist, misses, states, steams, and tastes. For points, the strongest plays are maists, massas, masses, mattes, misate, miseat, misses, misset, samite, seisms, smites, steams, stimes, tamest, tatami, 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 58 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metastasis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asses, items, mates, meats, seats, sites, and state. For points, the strongest plays are amass, amias, amies, amiss, atmas, emits, items, maist, masas, mases, massa, masse, masts, mates, matte, matts, meats, mesas, metis, mises, mists, mites, mitts, satem, seams, seism, semis, simas, 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 metastasis produces 67 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, east, eats, item, mass, mate, and meat. For points, the strongest plays are aims, amas, amia, amie, amis, atma, emit, isms, item, maes, masa, mass, mast, mate, mats, matt, meat, mesa, mess, meta, mise, miss, mist, mite, mitt, same, seam, semi, sima, sims, smit, stem, stim, 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 metastasis turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ass, ate, eat, its, met, and sat. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ama, ami, ems, ism, mae, mas, mat, mes, met, 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metastasis. 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.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in metastasis plus one additional letter.
metastasis 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 metastasis. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
metastasis is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing metastasis unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is metastasis, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from metastasis 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 metastasis produce 237 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 6 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 58 five-letter words, 67 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.