Hidden inside liming sit liming and miling, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 16 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
liming and miling tie for the highest Scrabble score from liming at 9 points. The top 10 of 16 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in liming: one comes from rearranging its letters, and liming 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 liming and miling, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in liming produces 4 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is glim, 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 liming turns up 6 three-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is mig, worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in liming. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in. For points, the strongest play is mi — worth 4 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 liming 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.
liming 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
liming is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing liming unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are liming and miling, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from liming 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 liming produce 16 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 four-letter words, 6 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.