Hidden inside metathesis sit metathesis and thematises, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 384 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
metathesis and thematises tie for the highest Scrabble score from metathesis at 15 points. The top 10 of 384 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in metathesis: one comes from rearranging its letters, and metathesis 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 metathesis and thematises, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling metathesis turns up 5 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hematites and thematise, each worth 14 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 metathesis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atheists. For points, the strongest plays are atheisms, hematite, meshiest, and shmattes — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in metathesis produces 26 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atheist, easiest, and estates. For points, the strongest plays are atheism, mashies, messiah, shmatte, and theisms — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling metathesis turns up 46 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with estate, shames, sheets, shiest, states, steams, and tastes. For points, the strongest plays are mashes, mashie, meshes, shames, smiths, theism, and themes — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 91 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metathesis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ashes, eases, hates, heats, items, mates, and maths. For points, the strongest plays are haems, hames, hemes, maths, meths, shame, shams, shims, smash, smith, and theme — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in metathesis produces 113 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahem, aims, ease, east, eats, hams, and hate. For points, the strongest plays are ahem, haem, hame, hams, heme, hems, hims, mash, math, mesh, meth, sham, shim, and them — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling metathesis turns up 61 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ash, ass, ate, eat, ham, and has. For points, the strongest plays are ham, hem, him, and meh — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metathesis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am, as, at, eh, ha, and he. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
metathesis 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in metathesis carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for metathesis. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
metathesis is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing metathesis unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are metathesis and thematises, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from metathesis 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 metathesis produce 384 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 5 nine-letter words, 16 eight-letter words, 26 seven-letter words, 46 six-letter words, 91 five-letter words, 113 four-letter words, 61 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.