metonymies needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 322 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
metonymies is the highest-scoring word from metonymies, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 322 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in metonymies — and it is metonymies itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metonymies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sometime. For points, the strongest play is metonyms — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in metonymies produces 15 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with moments. For points, the strongest play is metonym — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling metonymies turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with moment. For points, the strongest play is stemmy — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 81 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metonymies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enemy, items and meets. For points, the strongest plays are emmys, tommy, and yomim — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in metonymies produces 98 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eyes, into and item. For points, the strongest plays are emmy and immy — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling metonymies turns up 64 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eye, its and men. For points, the strongest play is yom — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metonymies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and it. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
metonymies 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 2-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 metonymies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
metonymies is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing metonymies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is metonymies, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from metonymies 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 metonymies produce 322 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 5 eight-letter words, 15 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 81 five-letter words, 98 four-letter words, 64 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.