Unscramble MERIT and you have 41 words, MERIT itself among them: it scores 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. MERIT has 4 anagrams here, MITER, MITRE, REMIT and TIMER, scoring 7 like MERIT itself. 12 shorter words score 6, among them TIME, ITEM and TERM. 5 letters: 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
By length, the words from MERIT split into 5 with 5 letters, 17 with 4, 10 with 3 and 9 with 2.
Keep every letter of MERIT but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with ME · ending in IT · all 5-letter words
The meaning of MERIT, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept MERIT, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| MERIT itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 41) | 35 | 40 | 33 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: MERI, RIEM, ERM, TRIE and RIT, 5 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: TREM and TE, 2 in all. Not in Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: ITER.
These 12 words take every letter of MERIT plus a single extra one.