Hidden inside dekametres sit dekameters and dekametres, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 501 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dekameters and dekametres tie for the highest Scrabble score from dekametres at 17 points. The top 10 of 501 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in dekametres: one comes from rearranging its letters, and dekametres itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dekameters and dekametres, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dekametres turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dekameter and dekametre, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dekametres. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mastered. For points, the strongest play is marketed — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in dekametres produces 35 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with darkest, dearest, markets, steamed, and steered. For points, the strongest plays are demarks, smeeked, and smerked — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dekametres turns up 94 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desert, dreams, dreamt, easter, erased, makers, and marked. For points, the strongest plays are demark, marked, and masked — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 143 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dekametres. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armed, asked, dares, dates, dears, deers, and dream. For points, the strongest plays are kames, maker, makes, marks, merks, samek, smeek, and smerk — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in dekametres produces 131 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arms, arts, dare, dark, date, dear, and deer. For points, the strongest plays are kame, make, mark, mask, meek, and merk — 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 dekametres turns up 64 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, are, arm, art, ask, ate, and ear. For points, the strongest play is dak — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dekametres. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, as, at, and me. For points, the strongest play is ka — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
dekametres 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 dekametres. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
dekametres is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dekametres unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dekameters and dekametres, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dekametres 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 dekametres produce 501 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 3 nine-letter words, 10 eight-letter words, 35 seven-letter words, 94 six-letter words, 143 five-letter words, 131 four-letter words, 64 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.