Hidden inside gametes sit gametes and metages, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 126 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gametes and metages tie for the highest Scrabble score from gametes at 10 points. The top 10 of 126 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in gametes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and gametes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gametes and metages, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling gametes turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gamest, gamete, and metage, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gametes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with games, gates, mates, meats, meets, stage, and steam. For points, the strongest plays are games and mages — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in gametes produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ease, east, eats, game, gate, and gets. For points, the strongest plays are game, gams, gems, mage, mags, mega, and megs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling gametes turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ate, eat, gas, gee, get, and met. For points, the strongest plays are gam, gem, mag, and meg — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gametes. 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in gametes and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
gametes 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 gametes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
gametes is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gametes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gametes and metages, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gametes 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 gametes produce 126 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.