Hidden inside monotremes sit metronomes, monometers, and monotremes, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 357 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
metronomes, monometers, and monotremes tie for the highest Scrabble score from monotremes at 14 points. The top 10 of 357 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 ten-letter words hiding in monotremes: two come from rearranging its letters, and monotremes 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 metronomes, monometers, and monotremes, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling monotremes turns up 6 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are metronome, momentoes, monometer and 2 more, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in monotremes. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mementos, momentos, monomers, and motormen, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in monotremes produces 19 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mentors, meteors and moments. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including moments, memento and momento.
Unscrambling monotremes turns up 46 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enters, mentor and meteor. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including moment, emmers and emmets.
There are 98 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in monotremes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, meets and memos. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including memos, emmer and emmet.
Rearranging the letters in monotremes produces 99 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meet, memo and moms. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including memo, moms and meme.
Unscrambling monotremes turns up 59 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with men, met and mom. For points, the strongest plays are mem and mom — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in monotremes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, no and on. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
monotremes 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 one sense for monotremes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
monotremes is one of three ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing monotremes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are metronomes, monometers, and monotremes, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from monotremes 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 monotremes produce 357 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 ten-letter words, 6 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 19 seven-letter words, 46 six-letter words, 98 five-letter words, 99 four-letter words, 59 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.