metalloids needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 810 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
metalloids is the highest-scoring word from metalloids, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 810 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in metalloids — and it is metalloids itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling metalloids turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are medallist and metalloid, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metalloids. If a familiar word is all you need, start with isolated. For points, the strongest plays are atomised, medalist, melodias, melodist, misdealt, modalist, modelist, moldiest, and slalomed — 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 metalloids produces 43 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with details, isolate, mildest, and stalled. For points, the strongest plays are amidols, damosel, diastem, diatoms, distome, malteds, mastoid, medials, melodia, meloids, midsole, mildest, misdate, misdeal, mislead, and modiste — 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 metalloids turns up 120 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admits, almost, detail, emails, ladies, lamest, and lasted. For points, the strongest plays are admits, amides, amidol, amidst, damsel, demast, demist, demits, diatom, dismal, dolmas, lameds, loamed, mailed, malled, malted, masted, medals, medial, medias, meloid, milled, milted, misled, misted, moated, modals, models, modest, moiled, molted, seldom, slimed, and smiled — 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 222 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metalloids. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ideal, ideas, items, leads, least, limos, and loads. For points, the strongest plays are lamed, limed, maids, mated, meads, medal, media, melds, midst, milds, misdo, modal, model, modes, molds, admit, aimed, amide, amido, amids, dames, deism, demit, demoi, demos, dimes, disme, dolma, domal, domes, tamed, and timed — 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 metalloids produces 259 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, aims, also, atom, lads, laid, and lame. For points, the strongest plays are amid, made, mads, maid, mead, meds, meld, mids, mild, mode, modi, mods, mold, dame, dams, demo, dime, dims, dome, doms, and idem — 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 metalloids turns up 111 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, aim, all, ate, die, and dot. For points, the strongest plays are dam, dim, dom, mad, med, mid, and mod — 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 36 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metalloids. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, as, at, do, id, and is. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, mi, mo, and om — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in metalloids plus one additional letter.
metalloids 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 3-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 metalloids. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
metalloids is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing metalloids unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is metalloids, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from metalloids 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 metalloids produce 810 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 16 eight-letter words, 43 seven-letter words, 120 six-letter words, 222 five-letter words, 259 four-letter words, 111 three-letter words and 36 two-letter words.