lingerers needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 222 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lingerers is the highest-scoring word from lingerers, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 222 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in lingerers — and it is lingerers itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lingerers. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lingerer, reelings, and resigner, 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 lingerers produces 12 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 eelings, greisen, leering, lingers, reeling, ringers, seeling, and slinger, 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 lingerers turns up 40 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with relies, seeing, singer, and single. For points, the strongest plays are eeling, erring, genies, genres, greens, grilse, ingles, legers, lieges, ligers, linger, regies, reigns, renigs, rerigs, resign, ringer, seeing, serger, sering, signee, signer, singer, and single — 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 lingerers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genes, girls, green, lines, rings, risen, and siren. For points, the strongest plays are egers, genes, genie, genre, girls, girns, glees, glens, green, grees, grins, ingle, leger, leges, liege, liger, lings, reges, regie, reign, renig, rerig, rings, segni, sengi, serge, siege, singe, and sling — 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 lingerers produces 59 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, gene, girl, legs, lies, line, and rigs. For points, the strongest plays are eger, egis, engs, ergs, gees, gels, gene, gens, gien, gies, gins, girl, girn, glee, glen, gree, grin, legs, ling, negs, regs, rigs, ring, sign, and sing — 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 lingerers turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, leg, lie, rig, see, sin, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are eng, erg, gee, gel, gen, gie, gin, gis, grr, leg, neg, reg, rig, seg, and sig — 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 lingerers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and is. For points, the strongest play is gi — 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 lingerers 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.
lingerers 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 lingerers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
lingerers is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lingerers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is lingerers, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from lingerers 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 lingerers produce 222 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 40 six-letter words, 53 five-letter words, 59 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.