lemming needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 50 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lemming is the highest-scoring word from lemming, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 50 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in lemming — and it is lemming itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lemming produces exactly one six-letter word: mingle. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lemming. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is gimme, 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 lemming produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with line, mile, and mine. For points, the strongest play is mime — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling lemming turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with leg, lie, and men. For points, the strongest plays are mem and mim — each worth 7 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 lemming. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and me. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 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 lemming and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
lemming 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 5-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 lemming. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
lemming is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lemming unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is lemming, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from lemming 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 lemming produce 50 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 5 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.