Hidden inside lindanes sit annelids and lindanes, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 234 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
annelids and lindanes tie for the highest Scrabble score from lindanes at 9 points. The top 10 of 234 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in lindanes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lindanes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are annelids and lindanes, each 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 lindanes produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with denials. For points, the strongest plays are annelid, denials, inlands, lindane, lindens, and snailed — 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 lindanes turns up 27 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aliens, denial, insane, island, ladies, nailed, and sailed. For points, the strongest plays are aisled, alined, deasil, denial, elands, ideals, inland, island, ladens, ladies, linden, nailed, naleds, sailed, sained, sendal, and sinned — 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 53 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lindanes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alien, aside, deals, delis, dials, and dines. For points, the strongest plays are aides, ailed, aside, dales, deals, deans, deils, delis, dials, dines, eland, ideal, ideas, idles, inned, isled, laden, lades, lands, lased, leads, lends, lined, naled, nidal, nides, saned, sedan, sidle, slide, and snide — 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 lindanes produces 79 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, deal, deli, dial, dies, dine, and ends. For points, the strongest plays are aide, aids, ands, dais, dale, dals, dans, deal, dean, deil, deli, dels, deni, dens, desi, dial, diel, dies, dine, dins, elds, ends, idea, ides, idle, lade, lads, laid, land, lead, lend, lids, lied, nide, sade, sadi, said, sand, send, side, sild, sled, slid, and sned — 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 lindanes turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, and, die, end, ids, and lad. For points, the strongest plays are ads, aid, and, dal, dan, das, del, den, die, din, dis, eds, eld, end, ids, lad, led, lid, and sad — 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lindanes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, id, in, and is. 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 lindanes and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
lindanes 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 lindanes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
lindanes is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lindanes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are annelids and lindanes, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lindanes 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 lindanes produce 234 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 27 six-letter words, 53 five-letter words, 79 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.