Hidden inside milliliter sit milliliter and millilitre, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 91 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
milliliter and millilitre tie for the highest Scrabble score from milliliter at 12 points. The top 10 of 91 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in milliliter: one comes from rearranging its letters, and milliliter itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are milliliter and millilitre, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Rearranging the letters in milliliter produces 3 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 limiter, millier, and miltier, 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 milliliter turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are limier, miller, millet, milter, and mitier, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in milliliter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with limit. For points, the strongest plays are limit, merit, miler, mille, miter, mitre, remit, and timer — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in milliliter produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, melt, mile, tell, term, till, and time. For points, the strongest plays are emir, emit, item, lime, mell, melt, merl, mile, mill, milt, mire, miri, mite, rime, term, time, trem, and trim — 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 milliliter turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ill, let, lie, lit, met, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are elm, mel, met, mil, mir, rem, and rim — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in milliliter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with it and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in milliliter plus one additional letter.
milliliter 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 4-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 milliliter. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
milliliter is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing milliliter unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are milliliter and millilitre, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from milliliter 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 milliliter produce 91 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.