Hidden inside lemons sit lemons, melons, and solemn, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 76 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lemons, melons, and solemn tie for the highest Scrabble score from lemons at 8 points. The top 10 of 76 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in lemons: two come from rearranging its letters, and lemons itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lemons and melons. For points, the strongest plays are lemons, melons, and solemn — 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 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lemons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lemon, melon, and moles. For points, the strongest plays are lemon, melon, meson, moles, nomes, and omens — 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 lemons produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lose, mole, nose, ones, and some. For points, the strongest plays are elms, emos, mels, meno, mole, mols, mons, nome, noms, omen, and some — 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 lemons turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with men, one, and son. For points, the strongest plays are elm, emo, ems, mel, men, mes, mol, mon, mos, nom, oms, and som — 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 lemons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, no, on, and so. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mo, and om — 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 lemons and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
lemons 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 five senses for lemons. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
lemons is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lemons unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lemons, melons, and solemn, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lemons 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 lemons produce 76 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.