metatarsus 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, 428 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
metatarsus is the highest-scoring word from metatarsus, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 428 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in metatarsus — and it is metatarsus itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling metatarsus 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 word is maturates, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metatarsus. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mattress, maturest, and smartest. For points, the strongest plays are amateurs, mattrass, mattress, maturate, maturest, smartest, smatters, and stratums — 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 metatarsus produces 30 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with masters, matters, statues, and traumas. For points, the strongest plays are amasser, amateur, amusers, asarums, assumer, estrums, masseur, masters, matrass, matters, matures, musters, mutases, mutates, mutters, satsuma, smatter, stratum, streams, strumae, strumas, and traumas — 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 metatarsus turns up 74 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amuses, assume, assure, master, matter, mature, and stares. For points, the strongest plays are amuser, amuses, arames, armets, asarum, assume, estrum, marses, masers, master, maters, matres, matter, mattes, mature, meatus, musers, muster, mutase, mutate, mutest, mutter, ramate, ramets, serums, smarts, smears, steams, stream, struma, strums, tamers, tamest, and trauma — 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 115 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metatarsus. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amuse, areas, mates, meats, rates, rests, and seats. For points, the strongest plays are amass, amuse, arame, armet, arums, atmas, maars, maras, mares, marse, marts, masas, maser, mases, massa, masse, masts, mater, mates, matte, matts, mauts, meats, mesas, muras, mures, muser, muses, musts, muter, mutes, mutts, ramet, ramus, reams, satem, seams, serum, smart, smear, smuts, steam, stems, strum, stums, tamer, tames, teams, terms, trams, and trems — 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 metatarsus produces 113 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, arms, arts, ears, east, eats, and eras. For points, the strongest plays are amas, amus, arms, arum, atma, emus, maar, maes, mara, mare, mars, mart, masa, mass, mast, mate, mats, matt, maut, meat, mesa, mess, meta, mura, mure, muse, muss, must, mute, muts, mutt, rams, ream, rems, rums, same, seam, smut, stem, stum, sums, tame, tams, team, term, tram, trem, and tums — 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 metatarsus turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm, art, ass, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are ama, amu, arm, ems, emu, mae, mar, mas, mat, mes, met, mus, mut, ram, rem, rum, sum, tam, tum, and ums — 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metatarsus. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, me, um, and us. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, mu, and um — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in metatarsus plus one additional letter.
metatarsus 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for metatarsus. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
metatarsus is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing metatarsus unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is metatarsus, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from metatarsus 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 metatarsus produce 428 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 11 eight-letter words, 30 seven-letter words, 74 six-letter words, 115 five-letter words, 113 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.