Hidden inside salometers sit elastomers and salometers, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 804 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
elastomers and salometers tie for the highest Scrabble score from salometers at 12 points. The top 10 of 804 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in salometers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and salometers 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 elastomers and salometers, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling salometers turns up 5 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are elastomer, molesters, salometer, and semestral, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in salometers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maestros. For points, 15 words tie at 10 points, including maestros, lamsters and maltoses.
Rearranging the letters in salometers produces 77 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easters, maestro and masters. For points, 35 words tie at 9 points, including maestro, masters and meteors.
Unscrambling salometers turns up 155 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, almost and alters. For points, 66 words tie at 8 points, including almost, lamest and master.
There are 222 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in salometers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with roast, roles and roses. For points, 84 words tie at 7 points, including seems, slams and smart.
Rearranging the letters in salometers produces 205 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, arms and arts. For points, 71 words tie at 6 points, including arms, atom and lame.
Unscrambling salometers turns up 91 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm and art. For points, 26 words tie at 5 points, including arm, met and elm.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in salometers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as and at. For points, 6 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in salometers plus one additional letter.
salometers 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.
salometers is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing salometers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are elastomers and salometers, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from salometers 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 salometers produce 804 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 5 nine-letter words, 22 eight-letter words, 77 seven-letter words, 155 six-letter words, 222 five-letter words, 205 four-letter words, 91 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.