lindies needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 8 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 89 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lindies is the highest-scoring word from lindies, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 89 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in lindies — and it is lindies itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lindies turns up 3 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with inside. For points, the strongest plays are indies and inside — 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 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lindies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis, dines, lends, lined, lines, and slide. For points, the strongest plays are deils, delis, dines, idles, indie, isled, lends, lined, nides, 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 lindies produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dies, dine, ends, lend, lids, and lied. For points, the strongest plays are deil, deli, dels, deni, dens, desi, diel, dies, dine, dins, elds, ends, ides, idle, lend, lids, lied, nide, nidi, 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 lindies turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end, ids, led, lid, lie, and sin. For points, the strongest plays are del, den, die, din, dis, eds, eld, end, ids, 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lindies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are 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 lindies 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.
lindies 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 2-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 lindies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
lindies is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lindies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is lindies, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from lindies 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 lindies produce 89 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.