Hidden inside gremlins sit gremlins and minglers, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 209 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gremlins and minglers tie for the highest Scrabble score from gremlins at 11 points. The top 10 of 209 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in gremlins: one comes from rearranging its letters, and gremlins itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gremlins and minglers, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in gremlins produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mingles. For points, the strongest plays are gremlin, mingler, and mingles — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling gremlins turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mingle, singer, and single. For points, the strongest plays are gimels, glimes, grimes, and mingle — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 48 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gremlins. If a familiar word is all you need, start with germs, girls and lines. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including germs, gimel and glime.
Rearranging the letters in gremlins produces 65 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with germ, girl and legs. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including germ, gems and glim.
Unscrambling gremlins turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with leg, lie and men. For points, the strongest plays are gem, meg, and mig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gremlins. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in gremlins plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in gremlins and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
gremlins 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 gremlins. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
gremlins is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gremlins unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gremlins and minglers, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gremlins 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 gremlins produce 209 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 48 five-letter words, 65 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.