Hidden inside meters sit merest, meters, metres and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 66 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
merest, meters, metres and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from meters at 8 points. The top 10 of 66 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in meters: three come from rearranging its letters, and meters itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meters. For points, the strongest plays are merest, meters, metres, and retems — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in meters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meets, meter and steer. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including meets, meter and terms.
Rearranging the letters in meters produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meet, rest and seem. For points, 11 words tie at 6 points, including meet, seem and stem.
Unscrambling meters turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with met, see, and set. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including met, eme and ems.
23 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in meters plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in meters and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
meters 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 six senses for meters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
meters is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing meters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are merest, meters, metres, and retems, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from meters 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 meters produce 66 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.