Hidden inside polymeric sit micropyle and polymeric, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 18 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 267 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
micropyle and polymeric tie for the highest Scrabble score from polymeric at 18 points. The top 10 of 267 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in polymeric: one comes from rearranging its letters, and polymeric itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are micropyle and polymeric, each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in polymeric. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are compiler and complier, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in polymeric produces 10 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 polymer, primely, and pyloric, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling polymeric turns up 27 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with copier, police, and policy. For points, the strongest plays are comply, crimpy, myopic, and pyemic — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in polymeric. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crime, imply and lyric. For points, 8 words tie at 12 points, including imply, mercy and crepy.
Rearranging the letters in polymeric produces 94 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lice, limo and mice. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including copy, mopy and pyic.
Unscrambling polymeric turns up 62 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cop, cry and ice. For points, the strongest play is myc — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in polymeric. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, my and or. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in polymeric plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in polymeric 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.
polymeric 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 polymeric. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
polymeric is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing polymeric unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are micropyle and polymeric, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from polymeric 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 polymeric produce 267 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 27 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 94 four-letter words, 62 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.