Hidden inside meteoroids sit meteoroids and odometries, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 581 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
meteoroids and odometries tie for the highest Scrabble score from meteoroids at 13 points. The top 10 of 581 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in meteoroids: one comes from rearranging its letters, and meteoroids 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 meteoroids and odometries, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling meteoroids turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dosimeter, meteoroid, motorised, and odometers, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in meteoroids. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are demerits, demister, dimeters and 9 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in meteoroids produces 50 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with editors, meteors and moister. For points, 17 words tie at 10 points, including stormed, demerit and demotes.
Unscrambling meteoroids turns up 93 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desert, desire and driest. For points, 20 words tie at 9 points, including demies, demise and demist.
There are 159 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in meteoroids. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, diets and dimes. For points, 25 words tie at 8 points, including dimes, dooms and dorms.
Rearranging the letters in meteoroids produces 156 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meet, mode and mood. For points, 18 words tie at 7 points, including mode, mood and dime.
Unscrambling meteoroids turns up 76 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dot and ids. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including dim, dom and med.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in meteoroids. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id and is. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including me, em and mi.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in meteoroids plus one additional letter.
meteoroids 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 meteoroids. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
meteoroids is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing meteoroids unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are meteoroids and odometries, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from meteoroids 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 meteoroids produce 581 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 4 nine-letter words, 16 eight-letter words, 50 seven-letter words, 93 six-letter words, 159 five-letter words, 156 four-letter words, 76 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.