mettle needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 8 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 23 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mettle is the highest-scoring word from mettle, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 23 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in mettle — and it is mettle itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mettle produces 7 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meet and melt. For points, the strongest plays are meet, melt, mete, and teem — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling mettle turns up 10 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with let and met. For points, the strongest plays are elm, eme, mel, and met — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mettle. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me. For points, the strongest plays are em and me — 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 mettle and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
mettle 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 mettle. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
mettle is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mettle unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is mettle, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from mettle 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 mettle produce 23 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 7 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.