longtime needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 192 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
longtime is the highest-scoring word from longtime, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 192 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in longtime — and it is longtime itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in longtime produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with melting. For points, the strongest plays are emoting, melting, mitogen, and molting — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling longtime turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mingle. For points, the strongest plays are gimlet, meting, and mingle — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in longtime. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gnome, lemon, melon, and motel. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including gnome, gemot and genom.
Rearranging the letters in longtime produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gone, into and item. For points, the strongest plays are glim and glom — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling longtime turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, get and got. For points, the strongest plays are gem, meg, mig, and mog — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in longtime. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in and it. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including me, em and mi.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in longtime plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in longtime and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
longtime 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 one sense for longtime. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
longtime is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing longtime unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is longtime, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from longtime 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 longtime produce 192 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.