Hidden inside miters sit merits, mister, miters and 4 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 101 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
merits, mister, miters and 3 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from miters at 8 points. The top 10 of 101 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 7 six-letter words hiding in miters: six come from rearranging its letters, and miters itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are merits, mister, miters, mitres, remits, smiter, and timers, 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 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in miters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, terms, times, tires, tries, and trims. For points, the strongest plays are emirs, emits, items, merit, metis, mires, miser, miter, mites, mitre, remit, rimes, smite, stime, terms, timer, times, trems, and trims — 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 miters produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, rest, rise, site, stem, stir, and term. For points, the strongest plays are emir, emit, item, mire, mirs, mise, mist, mite, rems, rime, rims, semi, smit, stem, stim, 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 miters turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, met, set, sir, sit, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are ems, ism, mes, met, mir, mis, rem, rim, and sim — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in miters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, 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.
36 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in miters plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in miters 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.
miters 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record six senses for miters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
miters is one of seven six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing miters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are merits, mister, miters, mitres, remits, smiter, and timers, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from miters 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 miters produce 101 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 7 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.