Hidden inside gremlin sit gremlin and mingler, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 83 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble MINERGL, GREMNLI or RINGMEL and you get the same 7 letters as GREMLIN: so the words from GREMLIN listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
gremlin and mingler tie for the highest Scrabble score from gremlin at 10 points. The top 10 of 83 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in gremlin: one comes from rearranging its letters, and gremlin itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gremlin and mingler, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gremlin. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gimel, glime, and grime, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in gremlin produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with germ, girl and line. For points, the strongest plays are germ, glim, and grim — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling gremlin turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with leg, lie, men, and rig. For points, the strongest plays are gem, meg, and mig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gremlin. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
7 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in gremlin plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in gremlin and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
gremlin 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 4-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 gremlin. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
gremlin is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gremlin unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gremlin and mingler, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gremlin 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 gremlin produce 83 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.