Unscramble MERITING and you have 160 words, MERITING itself among them: it scores 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. It has 2 anagrams, each with the same 11 points: MITERING and RETIMING. 5 shorter words score 10, among them ITEMING, METRING and MINGIER. The 8 letters split into 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from MERITING by length: 3 with 8 letters, 11 with 7, 20 with 6, 25 with 5, 51 with 4, 37 with 3 and 13 with 2.
GRIME and MINGE share the top score of 8 among the 5-letter words you get when you unscramble MERITING. INTER, TIGER and TIMER are the ones most people know.
Among 51 4-letter words made with MERITING letters, the top score is 7, reached by 4. TIME, ITEM and TERM are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of MERITING but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with ME · ending in NG · all 8-letter words
What MERITING means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept MERITING, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| MERITING itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 160) | 126 | 159 | 118 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: GEMINI, GERMIN, MERING, MINGER, MINGE, MINIER, TIGRINE, GIRNIE, INERM, MEINT, MENG, MING and 21 more, 33 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: MIRIN, MEG, TREM, GITE, NEG, TEIN, GI and TE, 8 in all. Not in Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: ITER.
Each word below uses all the letters of MERITING and one more.