lengthen needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 55 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lengthen is the highest-scoring word from lengthen, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 55 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in lengthen — and it is lengthen itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lengthen turns up 3 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gentle and length. For points, the strongest play is length — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lengthen. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are henge and thegn, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in lengthen produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gene, heel, lent, teen, thee, and then. For points, the strongest play is ghee — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling lengthen turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, get, hen, leg, let, net, and ten. For points, the strongest plays are eth, hen, het, nth, and the — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lengthen. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: eh and he, worth 5 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in lengthen 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.
lengthen 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for lengthen. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
lengthen is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lengthen unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is lengthen, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from lengthen 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 lengthen produce 55 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.