Hidden inside smaltite sit maltiest, metalist, and smaltite, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 276 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
maltiest, metalist, and smaltite tie for the highest Scrabble score from smaltite at 10 points. The top 10 of 276 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in smaltite: two come from rearranging its letters, and smaltite 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 maltiest, metalist, and smaltite, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in smaltite produces 2 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 etatism and matiest, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling smaltite turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with emails, lamest and latest. For points, 13 words tie at 8 points, including emails, lamest and metals.
There are 68 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smaltite. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, email and items. For points, 38 words tie at 7 points, including email, items and mails.
Rearranging the letters in smaltite produces 106 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, lame and last. For points, 46 words tie at 6 points, including aims, lame and mail.
Unscrambling smaltite turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ate and eat. For points, 16 words tie at 5 points, including aim, met and ami.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smaltite. 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.
9 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in smaltite plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in smaltite 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.
smaltite 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 one sense for smaltite. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
smaltite is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing smaltite unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are maltiest, metalist, and smaltite, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from smaltite 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 smaltite produce 276 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 68 five-letter words, 106 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.