metonymic needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 161 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
metonymic is the highest-scoring word from metonymic, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 161 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in metonymic — and it is metonymic itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in metonymic produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with comment. For points, the strongest play is metonym — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling metonymic turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with commit, income, moment, and notice. For points, the strongest plays are comity and myotic — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metonymic. If a familiar word is all you need, start with money. For points, the strongest play is commy — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in metonymic produces 54 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, city and coin. For points, the strongest plays are cyme, emmy, and immy — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling metonymic turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, ice and men. For points, the strongest play is myc — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metonymic. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, it and me. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in metonymic plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in metonymic 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.
metonymic 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 metonymic. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
metonymic is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing metonymic unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is metonymic, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from metonymic 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 metonymic produce 161 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 54 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.