lengths needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 72 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lengths is the highest-scoring word from lengths, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 72 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in lengths — and it is lengths itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lengths turns up 2 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with length. For points, the strongest plays are 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 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lengths. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is thegn, 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 lengths produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gets, hens, legs, lent, lets, nest, and nets. For points, the strongest plays are eths, hens, hent, hest, hets, shen, and then — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling lengths turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with get, hen, leg, let, net, set, and she. 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 lengths. 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 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in lengths plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lengths 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.
lengths 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.
Dictionaries record five senses for lengths. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
lengths is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lengths unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is lengths, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from lengths 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 lengths produce 72 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.