Hidden inside lentil sit lentil and lintel, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 42 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lentil and lintel tie for the highest Scrabble score from lentil at 6 points. The top 10 of 42 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in lentil: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lentil itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lentil and lintel, 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 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lentil. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are elint, inlet, and intel, each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in lentil produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lent, line, tell, and till. For points, the strongest plays are lent, lien, lilt, line, lint, lite, nill, nite, tein, tell, tile, till, and tine — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling lentil turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ill, let, lie, lit, net, ten, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are ell, ill, lei, let, lie, lin, lit, net, nil, nit, tel, ten, tie, til, and tin — each worth 3 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 lentil. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and it. For points, the strongest plays are el, en, et, in, it, li, ne, te, and ti — each worth 2 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 lentil and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
lentil 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 three senses for lentil. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
lentil is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lentil unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lentil and lintel, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lentil 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 lentil produce 42 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.