lengthens needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 140 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lengthens is the highest-scoring word from lengthens, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 140 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in lengthens — and it is lengthens itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lengthens produces exactly one eight-letter word: lengthen. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in lengthens produces 2 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: lengths, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling lengthens turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gentle and length. For points, the strongest plays are henges, length, and thegns — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 36 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lengthens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genes, heels, sheet, steel, teens, tense, and these. For points, the strongest plays are ghees, 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 lengthens produces 46 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, gene, gets, heel, hens, legs, and lent. 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 lengthens turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, get, hen, leg, let, net, and see. For points, the strongest plays are eth, hen, hes, het, nth, she, 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lengthens. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: eh, he, and sh, worth 5 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in lengthens plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lengthens and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
lengthens 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 lengthens. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
lengthens is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lengthens unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is lengthens, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from lengthens 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 lengthens produce 140 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 36 five-letter words, 46 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.