Hidden inside linemates sit enamelist, linemates, and melanites, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 571 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
enamelist, linemates, and melanites tie for the highest Scrabble score from linemates at 11 points. The top 10 of 571 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in linemates: two come from rearranging its letters, and linemates 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 enamelist, linemates, and melanites, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in linemates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with manliest. For points, 13 words tie at 10 points, including manliest, ailments and aliments.
Rearranging the letters in linemates produces 38 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meanest. For points, 23 words tie at 9 points, including meanest, ailment and aliment.
Unscrambling linemates turns up 87 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aliens, emails and lamest. For points, 46 words tie at 8 points, including emails, lamest and mental.
There are 155 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in linemates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alien and eaten. For points, 69 words tie at 7 points, including email, items and mails.
Rearranging the letters in linemates produces 169 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, amen and ants. For points, 66 words tie at 6 points, including aims, amen and lame.
Unscrambling linemates turns up 80 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ant and ate. For points, 21 words tie at 5 points, including aim, man and men.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in linemates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and as. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
8 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in linemates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in linemates 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.
linemates is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
linemates is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing linemates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are enamelist, linemates, and melanites, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from linemates 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 linemates produce 571 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 13 eight-letter words, 38 seven-letter words, 87 six-letter words, 155 five-letter words, 169 four-letter words, 80 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.