Hidden inside kilometer sit kilometer and kilometre, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 230 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
kilometer and kilometre tie for the highest Scrabble score from kilometer at 15 points. The top 10 of 230 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in kilometer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and kilometer 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 kilometer and kilometre, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling kilometer produces exactly one eight-letter word: lorikeet. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in kilometer produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is meikler, 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 kilometer turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meteor, omelet, and remote. For points, the strongest plays are meikle and milker — 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 39 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in kilometer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meter and motel. For points, the strongest play is kelim — 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 kilometer produces 87 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, kite, like, limo, meet, melt, and mile. For points, the strongest plays are meek, merk, mike, milk, mirk, and moke — 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 kilometer turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kit, let, lie, lit, lot, met, and oil. For points, the strongest plays are eek, eke, elk, ilk, irk, kir, kit, koi, kor, lek, oik, and oke — 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in kilometer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with it, me, ok, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ki and ok — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in kilometer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in kilometer 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.
kilometer 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 2-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 kilometer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
kilometer is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing kilometer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are kilometer and kilometre, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from kilometer 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 kilometer produce 230 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 39 five-letter words, 87 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.