metropolis needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 790 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
metropolis is the highest-scoring word from metropolis, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 790 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in metropolis — and it is metropolis itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling metropolis produces exactly one nine-letter word: pistolero. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metropolis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with promotes. For points, 8 words tie at 12 points, including promotes, implores and imposter.
Rearranging the letters in metropolis produces 70 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with moister, permits and politer. For points, 22 words tie at 11 points, including permits, promise and promote.
Unscrambling metropolis turns up 137 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with looser, molest and motels. For points, 25 words tie at 10 points, including permit, simple and impels.
There are 232 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metropolis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with piles, pilot and plots. For points, 23 words tie at 9 points, including poems, prime and proms.
Rearranging the letters in metropolis produces 211 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lets, lies and limo. For points, 15 words tie at 8 points, including mops, poem and prom.
Unscrambling metropolis turns up 95 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, let and lie. For points, the strongest plays are imp, mop, and pom — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metropolis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it and me. For points, 9 words tie at 4 points, including me, em and mi.
metropolis 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 two senses for metropolis. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
metropolis is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing metropolis unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is metropolis, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from metropolis 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 metropolis produce 790 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 16 eight-letter words, 70 seven-letter words, 137 six-letter words, 232 five-letter words, 211 four-letter words, 95 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.