Hidden inside meth sit meth and them, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 15 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
meth and them tie for the highest Scrabble score from meth at 9 points. The top 10 of 15 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 four-letter words hiding in meth: one comes from rearranging its letters, and meth itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: meth and them, worth 9 points apiece in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling meth turns up 6 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with met and the. For points, the strongest plays are hem and meh — 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in meth. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hm, and me. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in meth and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
meth 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in meth carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for meth. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
meth is one of two four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing meth unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are meth and them, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from meth 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 meth produce 15 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 four-letter words, 6 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.