perimeter needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 121 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
perimeter is the highest-scoring word from perimeter, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 121 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in perimeter — and it is perimeter itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in perimeter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with premiere. For points, the strongest plays are premiere, retemper, and temperer — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in perimeter produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with emptier. For points, the strongest plays are emptier, epimere, preemie, premeet, premier, preterm, and pretrim — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling perimeter turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with empire, permit, and retire. For points, the strongest plays are empire, epimer, permit, premie, primer, and temper — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in perimeter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meter and prime. For points, the strongest plays are prime and tempi — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in perimeter produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, meet, temp, term, time, tire, and tree. For points, the strongest plays are perm, prim, and temp — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling perimeter turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with met, pee, per, pet, pie, pit, and rep. For points, the strongest play is imp — worth 7 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 perimeter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with it and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mi, pe, and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in perimeter plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in perimeter and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
perimeter 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for perimeter. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
perimeter is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing perimeter unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is perimeter, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from perimeter 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 perimeter produce 121 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.