Hidden inside lengthy sit lengthy and thegnly, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 49 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lengthy and thegnly tie for the highest Scrabble score from lengthy at 14 points. The top 10 of 49 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in lengthy: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lengthy itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lengthy and thegnly, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling lengthy turns up 2 six-letter words. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: gently and length, worth 10 points apiece in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lengthy. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is ethyl, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in lengthy produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lent, then, and they. For points, the strongest plays are hyte and they — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling lengthy turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with get, hen, hey, leg, let, net, and ten. For points, the strongest plays are hey, thy, and yeh — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lengthy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh and he. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in lengthy 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.
lengthy 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for lengthy. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
lengthy is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lengthy unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lengthy and thegnly, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lengthy 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 lengthy produce 49 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.