Hidden inside mettua is one standout: mutate, a six-letter play worth 8 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 47 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
METTUA isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to MUTATE (verb), to change or cause to change in form, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
mutate is the highest-scoring word from mettua, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 47 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling mettua produces exactly one six-letter word: mutate. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mettua produces exactly one five-letter word: matte. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mettua produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mate, meat, and team. For points, 9 words tie at 6 points, including mate, meat and team.
Unscrambling mettua turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ate, eat, met, and tea. For points, 8 words tie at 5 points, including met, amu and emu.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mettua. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, at, me, and um. For points, 6 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and um.
4 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in mettua plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mettua 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.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is mutate, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from mettua 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 mettua produce 47 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 1 five-letter word, 12 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.