Hidden inside lemuroid sit lemuroid and mouldier, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 201 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lemuroid and mouldier tie for the highest Scrabble score from lemuroid at 11 points. The top 10 of 201 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in lemuroid: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lemuroid itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lemuroid and mouldier, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in lemuroid produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are moldier, moulder, and remould, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lemuroid turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with louder and milder. For points, 9 words tie at 9 points, including milder, dormie and meloid.
There are 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lemuroid. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lured, model, older, and ruled. For points, 14 words tie at 8 points, including model, demoi and demur.
Rearranging the letters in lemuroid produces 75 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dime and dorm. For points, 13 words tie at 7 points, including dime, dorm and drum.
Unscrambling lemuroid turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, due and led. For points, 7 words tie at 6 points, including mud, dim and dom.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lemuroid. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id and me. For points, 7 words tie at 4 points, including me, um and em.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in lemuroid plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lemuroid 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.
lemuroid 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.
lemuroid is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lemuroid unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lemuroid and mouldier, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lemuroid 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 lemuroid produce 201 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 75 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.