Hidden inside metiers sit meister, metiers, reemits and 2 others, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 152 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
meister, metiers, reemits and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from metiers at 9 points. The top 10 of 152 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 seven-letter words hiding in metiers: four come from rearranging its letters, and metiers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are meister, metiers, reemits, retimes, and triseme, 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 metiers turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meters. For points, the strongest plays are merest, merits, meters, metier, metres, mister, miters, mitres, reemit, remise, remits, retems, retime, smiter, and timers — 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 42 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metiers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, meets, meter, steer, terms, times, and tires. For points, the strongest plays are emirs, emits, items, meets, meres, merit, meter, metes, metis, metre, mires, miser, miter, mites, mitre, remet, remit, retem, rimes, smite, stime, teems, terms, timer, times, trems, and trims — 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 metiers produces 46 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, meet, rest, rise, seem, site, and stem. For points, the strongest plays are emes, emir, emit, item, meet, mere, mete, mire, mirs, mise, mist, mite, rems, rime, rims, seem, seme, semi, smit, stem, stim, teem, term, time, trem, and trim — 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 metiers turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, met, see, set, sir, sit, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are eme, ems, ism, mes, met, mir, mis, rem, rim, and sim — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metiers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
26 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in metiers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in metiers and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
metiers 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 two senses for metiers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
metiers is one of five seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing metiers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are meister, metiers, reemits, retimes, and triseme, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from metiers 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 metiers produce 152 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 42 five-letter words, 46 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.