Hidden inside micrometer sit micrometer and micrometre, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 201 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
micrometer and micrometre tie for the highest Scrabble score from micrometer at 16 points. The top 10 of 201 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in micrometer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and micrometer 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 micrometer and micrometre, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling micrometer 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 word is micromere, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in micrometer. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is recommit, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in micrometer produces 10 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are crimmer and memetic, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling micrometer turns up 30 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with commit, erotic, meteor, remote, and retire. For points, the strongest plays are commie and commit — 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 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in micrometer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crime and meter. For points, the strongest plays are comer, comet, comte, creme, crime, emmer, emmet, micro, mimeo, and mimer — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in micrometer produces 58 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with come, core, item, meet, memo, mice, and more. For points, the strongest play is comm — 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 micrometer turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, met, mom, tie, and toe. For points, the strongest plays are mem, mic, mim, moc, and mom — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in micrometer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with it, me, or, and to. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in micrometer plus one additional letter.
micrometer 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 two senses for micrometer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
micrometer is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing micrometer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are micrometer and micrometre, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from micrometer 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 micrometer produce 201 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 30 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 58 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.