Hidden inside lemures sit lemures and relumes, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 90 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lemures and relumes tie for the highest Scrabble score from lemures at 9 points. The top 10 of 90 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in lemures: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lemures itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lemures and relumes, 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 lemures turns up 4 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with resume. For points, the strongest plays are lemurs, merles, relume, and resume — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lemures. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lures and rules. For points, the strongest plays are emeus, lemur, meres, merle, merls, mules, mures, muser, and serum — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in lemures produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, lure, rule, rums, seem, and sure. For points, the strongest plays are elms, emes, emeu, emus, lums, mels, mere, merl, mule, mure, muse, rems, rums, seem, seme, and slum — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling lemures turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rum, see, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are elm, eme, ems, emu, lum, mel, mes, mus, rem, rum, sum, and ums — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lemures. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, um, and us. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mu, and um — each worth 4 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 lemures 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.
lemures 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
lemures is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lemures unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lemures and relumes, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lemures 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 lemures produce 90 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.