Hidden inside lemony sit lemony and melony, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 48 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lemony and melony tie for the highest Scrabble score from lemony at 11 points. The top 10 of 48 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in lemony: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lemony itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lemony and melony, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lemony. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lemon, melon, and money. For points, the strongest play is money — 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 lemony produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mole and only. For points, the strongest plays are elmy, moly, mony, and ylem — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling lemony turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with men and one. For points, the strongest play is yom — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lemony. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, my, no, on, oy, and yo. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in lemony plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lemony 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.
lemony 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 2-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 lemony. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
lemony is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lemony unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lemony and melony, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lemony 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 lemony produce 48 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.