Hidden inside seriatim sit airtimes and seriatim, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 287 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
airtimes and seriatim tie for the highest Scrabble score from seriatim at 10 points. The top 10 of 287 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in seriatim: one comes from rearranging its letters, and seriatim itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are airtimes and seriatim, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in seriatim produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maestri. For points, 11 words tie at 9 points, including maestri, airtime and amirite.
Unscrambling seriatim turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armies and master. For points, 26 words tie at 8 points, including armies, master and aimers.
There are 72 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in seriatim. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, mates and meats. For points, 47 words tie at 7 points, including items, mates and meats.
Rearranging the letters in seriatim produces 93 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs and arms. For points, 46 words tie at 6 points, including aims, arms and item.
Unscrambling seriatim turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air and are. For points, 18 words tie at 5 points, including aim, arm and met.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in seriatim. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as and at. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in seriatim plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in seriatim and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
seriatim 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.
seriatim is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing seriatim unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are airtimes and seriatim, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from seriatim 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 seriatim produce 287 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 72 five-letter words, 93 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.