semimetals needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 466 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
semimetals is the highest-scoring word from semimetals, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 466 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in semimetals — and it is semimetals itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling semimetals turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mealtimes and semimetal, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in semimetals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with slimmest. For points, 8 words tie at 12 points, including slimmest, malmiest and mealtime.
Rearranging the letters in semimetals produces 32 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easiest. For points, 9 words tie at 11 points, including melisma, mimeses and mismate.
Unscrambling semimetals turns up 67 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisles, emails and lamest. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including emmets, lemmas and mamees.
There are 125 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in semimetals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, eases and email. For points, 10 words tie at 9 points, including emmet, imams and lemma.
Rearranging the letters in semimetals produces 135 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, lame and last. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including maim, malm and mams.
Unscrambling semimetals turns up 64 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ass and ate. For points, the strongest plays are mam, mem, and mim — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in semimetals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as and at. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
semimetals 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.
semimetals is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing semimetals unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is semimetals, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from semimetals 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 semimetals produce 466 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 nine-letter words, 16 eight-letter words, 32 seven-letter words, 67 six-letter words, 125 five-letter words, 135 four-letter words, 64 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.