Hidden inside lengthier sit lengthier and lightener, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 241 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lengthier and lightener tie for the highest Scrabble score from lengthier at 13 points. The top 10 of 241 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in lengthier: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lengthier itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lengthier and lightener, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling lengthier produces exactly one eight-letter word: greenlit. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in lengthier produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gentler, lighten, lighter, and neither. For points, the strongest plays are greenth, heeling, lighten, lighter, rehinge, and relight — each 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 lengthier turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with either, entire, gentle, and length. For points, the strongest plays are hinger, length, and nigher — 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 61 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lengthier. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eight, enter, green, greet, light, night, and right. For points, the strongest plays are eight, girth, grith, henge, hinge, light, neigh, night, right, thegn, and thing — 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 lengthier produces 66 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gene, girl, heel, here, hint, hire, and lent. For points, the strongest plays are ghee and nigh — each 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 lengthier turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, get, hen, her, hit, leg, and let. For points, the strongest play is ghi — worth 7 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 lengthier. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, and hi — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
6 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in lengthier plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lengthier 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.
lengthier 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.
lengthier is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lengthier unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lengthier and lightener, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lengthier 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 lengthier produce 241 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 17 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 61 five-letter words, 66 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.