Hidden inside metheglin sit helmeting and metheglin, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 184 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
helmeting and metheglin tie for the highest Scrabble score from metheglin at 15 points. The top 10 of 184 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in metheglin: one comes from rearranging its letters, and metheglin itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are helmeting and metheglin, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in metheglin produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lighten, meeting, and melting. For points, the strongest plays are helming and theming — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling metheglin turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gentle, helmet, length, and mingle. For points, the strongest plays are helmet, hetmen, and hitmen — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 32 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metheglin. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eight, light and might. For points, the strongest play is might — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in metheglin produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gene, heel and hint. For points, the strongest plays are helm, heme, meth, and them — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling metheglin turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, get and hen. For points, the strongest plays are hem, him, and meh — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metheglin. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he and hi. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in metheglin plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in metheglin and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
metheglin 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 3-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 metheglin. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
metheglin is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing metheglin unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are helmeting and metheglin, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from metheglin 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 metheglin produce 184 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 32 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.