lemmings needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 124 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lemmings is the highest-scoring word from lemmings, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 124 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in lemmings — and it is lemmings itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in lemmings produces 2 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mingles. For points, the strongest play is lemming — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lemmings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lines, miles, and smile. For points, the strongest play is gimme — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in lemmings produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with legs, lies and line. For points, the strongest plays are mems and mime — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lemmings turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with leg, lie, men, and sin. For points, the strongest plays are mem and mim — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lemmings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and me. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in lemmings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lemmings 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.
lemmings 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 lemmings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
lemmings is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lemmings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is lemmings, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from lemmings 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 lemmings produce 124 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.