Hidden inside lemniscate sit centesimal and lemniscate, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 849 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
centesimal and lemniscate tie for the highest Scrabble score from lemniscate at 14 points. The top 10 of 849 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in lemniscate: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lemniscate itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are centesimal and lemniscate, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lemniscate turns up 8 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are meniscate, mescaline, selectman, and timescale, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 30 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lemniscate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cleanest and manliest. For points, 12 words tie at 12 points, including amnestic, casement and centimes.
Rearranging the letters in lemniscate produces 84 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cleanse, clients and license. For points, 17 words tie at 11 points, including amnesic, calmest and camlets.
Unscrambling lemniscate turns up 155 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aliens, camels and castle. For points, 22 words tie at 10 points, including camels, claims and amices.
There are 224 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lemniscate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, lanes and leans. For points, 19 words tie at 9 points, including calms, camel and claim.
Rearranging the letters in lemniscate produces 222 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, aims and amen. For points, 13 words tie at 8 points, including mice, scam and calm.
Unscrambling lemniscate turns up 98 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, aim and ant. For points, the strongest plays are cam, mac, and mic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lemniscate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and as. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in lemniscate plus one additional letter.
lemniscate 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 4-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 lemniscate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
lemniscate is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lemniscate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are centesimal and lemniscate, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lemniscate 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 lemniscate produce 849 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 8 nine-letter words, 30 eight-letter words, 84 seven-letter words, 155 six-letter words, 224 five-letter words, 222 four-letter words, 98 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.