Hidden inside linkers sit linkers and relinks, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 131 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
linkers and relinks tie for the highest Scrabble score from linkers at 11 points. The top 10 of 131 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in linkers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and linkers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are linkers and relinks, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling linkers turns up 11 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are inkers, inkles, likens, likers, linker, reinks, relink, reskin, silken, and sinker, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in linkers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with likes, lines, links, risen, and siren. For points, the strongest plays are inker, inkle, keirs, kerns, kiers, kilns, kines, kirns, liken, liker, likes, links, reink, rinks, siker, skein, skier, skirl, and slink — 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 linkers produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with inks, lies, like, line, link, rise, and risk. For points, the strongest plays are elks, ilks, inks, irks, keir, kens, kern, kier, kiln, kine, kins, kirn, kirs, kris, leks, like, link, rink, risk, sike, silk, sink, and skin — 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 linkers turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ink, lie, sin, sir, and ski. For points, the strongest plays are elk, ilk, ink, irk, ken, kin, kir, kis, lek, and ski — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in linkers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and is. For points, the strongest play is ki — worth 6 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 linkers 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.
linkers 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.
linkers is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing linkers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are linkers and relinks, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from linkers 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 linkers produce 131 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.