Hidden inside lames sit almes, lames, males and 1 other, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 48 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
almes, lames, males and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from lames at 7 points. The top 10 of 48 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 five-letter words hiding in lames: three come from rearranging its letters, and lames itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with males and meals. For points, the strongest plays are almes, lames, males, and meals — 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 lames produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lame, male, meal, sale, same, seal, and slam. For points, the strongest plays are alme, alms, elms, lame, lams, maes, male, meal, mels, mesa, same, seam, 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 lames turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sea. For points, the strongest plays are elm, ems, lam, mae, mas, mel, and mes — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lames. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, 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.
30 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in lames plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lames and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
lames 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
lames is one of four five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lames unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are almes, lames, males, and meals, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lames 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 lames produce 48 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.