Hidden inside lineaments sit alinements and lineaments, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 630 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alinements and lineaments tie for the highest Scrabble score from lineaments at 12 points. The top 10 of 630 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in lineaments: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lineaments itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alinements and lineaments, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling lineaments turns up 5 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alinement, enamelist, lineament, linemates, and melanites, 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 19 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lineaments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with manliest. For points, the strongest plays are ailments, aliments, enamines, etamines, linemate, linesman, linesmen, manliest, mannites, matinees, mealiest, melanins, melanist, melanite, metalise, miseaten, smaltine, and talesmen — 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 lineaments produces 54 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with intense and meanest. For points, the strongest plays are ailment, aliment, elmiest, emetins, eminent, enamels, enamine, etamine, etamins, inmates, laments, lensman, lensmen, lineman, linemen, malines, mannite, mantels, mantles, matinee, mealies, meanest, meanies, melanin, melenas, menials, nemesia, seminal, steamie, tameins, 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 lineaments turns up 105 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aliens, emails, insane, lamest, listen, mental, and metals. For points, the strongest plays are aments, amines, animes, elemis, emails, emetin, enamel, enemas, etamin, inmate, inseam, lament, lamest, lemans, limans, limens, mailes, maline, mantel, mantes, mantis, mantle, matins, mealie, meanie, measle, melena, menial, mensae, mensal, mental, mesial, mesian, metals, misate, miseat, nanism, samiel, samite, samlet, santim, seamen, semina, simnel, smalti, stamen, 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 163 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lineaments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, lanes, leans, lease, least, lines, and mails. For points, the strongest plays are items, lames, leman, liman, limas, limen, limes, limns, maile, mails, mains, maist, males, malts, manes, manis, manse, mates, matin, meals, means, meant, meats, meets, melts, mensa, mense, menta, mesne, metal, metes, metis, miens, miles, milts, minae, minas, mines, mints, mites, almes, amens, ament, amies, amine, amins, anime, elemi, email, emits, enema, names, neems, nemas, salmi, satem, semen, slime, smalt, smelt, smile, smite, steam, stime, tames, tamis, teams, teems, and times — 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 lineaments produces 174 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, amen, ants, lame, lane, last, and late. For points, the strongest plays are aims, alme, alms, amen, amie, amin, amis, lame, lams, lima, lime, limn, maes, mail, main, male, malt, mane, mani, mans, mast, mate, mats, meal, mean, meat, meet, mels, melt, mesa, meta, mete, mien, mile, mils, milt, mina, mine, mint, mise, mist, mite, name, neem, nema, nims, same, seam, seem, seme, semi, sima, slam, slim, smit, stem, stim, elms, emes, emit, item, tame, tams, 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 lineaments turns up 82 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ant, ate, eat, its, let, and lie. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ami, elm, eme, ems, ism, lam, mae, man, mas, mat, mel, men, mes, met, mil, mis, nam, nim, sim, 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 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lineaments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, at, in, is, and it. 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.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in lineaments plus one additional letter.
lineaments 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 lineaments. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
lineaments is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lineaments unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are alinements and lineaments, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lineaments 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 lineaments produce 630 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 5 nine-letter words, 19 eight-letter words, 54 seven-letter words, 105 six-letter words, 163 five-letter words, 174 four-letter words, 82 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.