Hidden inside metronome sit metronome, monometer, and monotreme, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 138 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
metronome, monometer, and monotreme tie for the highest Scrabble score from metronome at 13 points. The top 10 of 138 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in metronome: two come from rearranging its letters, and metronome 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 metronome, monometer, and monotreme, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling metronome produces exactly one eight-letter word: motormen. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in metronome produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are memento, momento, and monomer, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling metronome turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mentor, meteor, moment, and remote. For points, the strongest plays are mermen and moment — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metronome. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, meter, moron, and motor. For points, the strongest plays are emmer and emmet — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in metronome produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meet, memo and moon. For points, the strongest plays are meme, memo, and mome — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling metronome turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with men, met and mom. For points, the strongest plays are mem and mom — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metronome. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, no and on. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in metronome plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in metronome 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.
metronome 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 metronome. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
metronome is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing metronome unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are metronome, monometer, and monotreme, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from metronome 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 metronome produce 138 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.