Hidden inside lintels sit lentils and lintels, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 121 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lentils and lintels tie for the highest Scrabble score from lintels at 7 points. The top 10 of 121 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in lintels: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lintels 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 lentils and lintels, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling lintels turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with listen and silent. For points, the strongest plays are elints, enlist, illest, inlets, intels, lentil, lintel, listel, listen, silent, and tinsel — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lintels. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lines, still, and tells. For points, the strongest plays are elint, inlet, inset, intel, islet, istle, lenis, liens, lilts, lines, lints, lisle, lites, neist, nills, nites, senti, snell, stein, stile, still, teins, tells, tiles, tills, and tines — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in lintels produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lent, lets, lies, line, list, nest, and nets. For points, the strongest plays are ells, ills, isle, leis, lens, lent, lest, lets, lien, lies, lilt, line, lins, lint, list, lite, lits, nest, nets, nill, nils, nite, nits, sell, sent, sill, silt, sine, site, slit, snit, tein, tell, tels, tens, ties, tile, till, tils, tine, and tins — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling lintels turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ill, its, let, lie, lit, net, and set. For points, the strongest plays are ell, els, ens, est, ill, ins, its, lei, let, lie, lin, lis, lit, net, nil, nit, sei, sel, sen, set, sin, sit, tel, ten, tes, tie, til, tin, and tis — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lintels. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are el, en, es, et, in, is, it, li, ne, si, te, and ti — each worth 2 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 lintels 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.
lintels 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 lintels. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
lintels is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lintels unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lentils and lintels, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lintels 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 lintels produce 121 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.