Hidden inside decametre sit decameter and decametre, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 226 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
decameter and decametre tie for the highest Scrabble score from decametre at 14 points. The top 10 of 226 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in decametre: one comes from rearranging its letters, and decametre 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 decameter and decametre, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decametre. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is cremated, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in decametre produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with catered, created, and reacted. For points, the strongest plays are amerced, creamed, and racemed — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling decametre turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with create and dreamt. For points, the strongest play is emceed — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 57 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decametre. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acted, armed and cared. For points, the strongest play is maced — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in decametre produces 63 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with came, card and care. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including came, cram and acme.
Unscrambling decametre turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, are and arm. For points, the strongest plays are cam and mac — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decametre. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, at, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in decametre plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in decametre 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.
decametre is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
Dictionaries record one sense for decametre. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
decametre is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing decametre unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are decameter and decametre, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from decametre 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 decametre produce 226 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 57 five-letter words, 63 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.