Hidden inside myrtle sit myrtle and termly, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 37 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
myrtle and termly tie for the highest Scrabble score from myrtle at 11 points. The top 10 of 37 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in myrtle: one comes from rearranging its letters, and myrtle 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 myrtle and termly, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling myrtle produces exactly one five-letter word: melty. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in myrtle produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with melt, rely, and term. For points, the strongest plays are elmy and ylem — 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 myrtle turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with let, met, try, and yet. For points, the strongest plays are ley, lye, rye, try, tye, yer, and yet — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in myrtle. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me and my. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in myrtle 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.
myrtle 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 two senses for myrtle. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
myrtle is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing myrtle unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are myrtle and termly, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from myrtle 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 myrtle produce 37 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 1 five-letter word, 11 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.