Hidden inside smatterer sit smatterer and tetramers, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 302 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
smatterer and tetramers tie for the highest Scrabble score from smatterer at 11 points. The top 10 of 302 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in smatterer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and smatterer 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 smatterer and tetramers, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smatterer. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are remaster, streamer, teamster, and tetramer, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in smatterer produces 23 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with matters, smarter, and starter. For points, 11 words tie at 9 points, including matters, smarter and armrest.
Unscrambling smatterer turns up 58 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, easter and estate. For points, 24 words tie at 8 points, including master, matter and meters.
There are 75 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smatterer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erase, mates and meats. For points, 35 words tie at 7 points, including mates, meats and meets.
Rearranging the letters in smatterer produces 79 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arms, arts and ears. For points, 31 words tie at 6 points, including arms, mate and meat.
Unscrambling smatterer turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm and art. For points, 12 words tie at 5 points, including arm, met and eme.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smatterer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in smatterer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in smatterer 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.
smatterer 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.
smatterer is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing smatterer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are smatterer and tetramers, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from smatterer 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 smatterer produce 302 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 23 seven-letter words, 58 six-letter words, 75 five-letter words, 79 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.