Hidden inside leming is one standout: mingle, a six-letter play worth 9 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 44 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
LEMING isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to MINGLE (verb), to mix together, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
mingle is the highest-scoring word from leming, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 44 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling leming produces exactly one six-letter word: mingle. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in leming. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gimel and glime, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in leming produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with line, mile, and mine. For points, the strongest play is glim — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling leming turns up 19 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in leming. 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.
13 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in leming plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in leming 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.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is mingle, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from leming 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 leming produce 44 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 4 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.