mettlesome 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, 169 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mettlesome is the highest-scoring word from mettlesome, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 169 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in mettlesome — and it is mettlesome itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mettlesome produces exactly one nine-letter word: omelettes. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mettlesome produces exactly one eight-letter word: omelette. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mettlesome produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with omelets. For points, the strongest plays are mettles, mottles, omelets, and telomes — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling mettlesome turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with molest, motels, omelet, and settle. For points, the strongest plays are emmets and sememe — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mettlesome. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meets, melts, memos, moles, motel, smelt, and steel. For points, the strongest plays are emmet, memes, memos, and momes — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in mettlesome produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, lets, lose, lost, lots, meet, and melt. For points, the strongest plays are meme, memo, mems, mome, and moms — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling mettlesome turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with let, lot, met, mom, see, set, and toe. For points, the strongest plays are mem and mom — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mettlesome. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, so, and to. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
mettlesome 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 mettlesome. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
mettlesome is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mettlesome unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is mettlesome, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from mettlesome 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 mettlesome produce 169 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.