Hidden inside lineament sit alinement and lineament, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 233 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alinement and lineament tie for the highest Scrabble score from lineament at 11 points. The top 10 of 233 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in lineament: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lineament itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alinement and lineament, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lineament. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are linemate and melanite, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in lineament produces 13 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ailment, aliment, eminent, enamine, etamine, lineman, linemen, mannite, matinee, melanin, and teleman, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling lineament turns up 27 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mental. For points, the strongest plays are emetin, enamel, etamin, inmate, lament, maline, mantel, mantle, mealie, meanie, melena, menial, mental, tamein, tinman, and tinmen — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 39 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lineament. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alien, eaten, email, meant, and metal. For points, the strongest plays are ament, amine, anime, elemi, email, enema, leman, liman, limen, maile, matin, meant, menta, metal, and minae — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in lineament produces 77 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, item, lame, lane, late, lean, and lent. For points, the strongest plays are alme, amen, amie, amin, emit, item, lame, lima, lime, limn, mail, main, male, malt, mane, mani, mate, meal, mean, meat, meet, melt, meta, mete, mien, mile, milt, mina, mine, mint, mite, name, neem, nema, tame, team, teem, and time — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling lineament turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ant, ate, eat, let, lie, and lit. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ami, elm, eme, lam, mae, man, mat, mel, men, met, mil, nam, nim, and tam — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lineament. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, at, in, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in lineament plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lineament and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
lineament 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for lineament. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
lineament is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lineament unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are alinement and lineament, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lineament 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 lineament produce 233 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 27 six-letter words, 39 five-letter words, 77 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.