Hidden inside lindane sit annelid and lindane, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 94 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
annelid and lindane tie for the highest Scrabble score from lindane at 8 points. The top 10 of 94 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in lindane: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lindane 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 annelid and lindane, 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 lindane turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with denial and nailed. For points, the strongest plays are alined, denial, inland, linden, and nailed — each 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 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lindane. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alien, ideal, and lined. For points, the strongest plays are ailed, eland, ideal, inned, laden, lined, naled, and nidal — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in lindane produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deal, deli, dial, dine, idea, laid, and land. For points, the strongest plays are aide, dale, deal, dean, deil, deli, deni, dial, diel, dine, idea, idle, lade, laid, land, lead, lend, lied, and nide — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling lindane turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, and, die, end, lad, led, and lid. For points, the strongest plays are aid, and, dal, dan, del, den, die, din, eld, end, lad, led, and lid — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lindane. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, id, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, ed, and id — each worth 3 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 lindane 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.
lindane 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 one sense for lindane. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
lindane is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lindane unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are annelid and lindane, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lindane 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 lindane produce 94 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.