Hidden inside lameness sit lameness, maleness, maneless and 2 others, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 172 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lameness, maleness, maneless and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from lameness at 10 points. The top 10 of 172 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 eight-letter words hiding in lameness: four come from rearranging its letters, and lameness itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with salesmen. For points, the strongest plays are lameness, maleness, maneless, nameless, and salesmen — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in lameness 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 words are enamels, manless, measles, and melenas, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling lameness turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with leases. For points, the strongest plays are enamel, enemas, lemans, manses, measle, melena, mensae, mensal, mensas, menses, mesnes, messan, seamen, semens, and sesame — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 42 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lameness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eases, lanes, leans, lease, males, meals, and means. For points, the strongest plays are almes, amens, enema, lames, leman, males, manes, manse, mases, masse, meals, means, mensa, mense, mesas, mesne, names, neems, nemas, seams, seems, semen, semes, and slams — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in lameness produces 56 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, ease, else, lame, lane, lean, and less. For points, the strongest plays are alme, alms, amen, elms, emes, lame, lams, maes, male, mane, mans, mass, meal, mean, mels, mesa, mess, name, neem, nema, same, seam, seem, seme, and slam — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling lameness turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, man, men, sea, and see. For points, the strongest plays are elm, eme, ems, lam, mae, man, mas, mel, men, mes, and nam — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lameness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in lameness 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.
lameness 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for lameness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
lameness is one of five eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lameness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lameness, maleness, maneless, nameless, and salesmen, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lameness 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 lameness produce 172 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 42 five-letter words, 56 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.