Hidden inside metering sit metering and regiment, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 158 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
metering and regiment tie for the highest Scrabble score from metering at 11 points. The top 10 of 158 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in metering: one comes from rearranging its letters, and metering itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are metering and regiment, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in metering produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meeting. For points, the strongest plays are meeting, metring, regimen, teeming, and terming — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling metering turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entire. For points, the strongest plays are emigre, germen, meting, regime, and tegmen — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, green, greet, merge, meter, and tiger. For points, the strongest plays are emerg, grime, and merge — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in metering produces 46 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gene, germ, item, meet, mine, mint, and rent. For points, the strongest plays are germ and grim — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling metering turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, get, men, met, net, rig, and ten. For points, the strongest plays are gem, meg, and mig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, 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.
Swap a single tile in metering and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
metering 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.
metering is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing metering unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are metering and regiment, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from metering 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 metering produce 158 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 46 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.