Hidden inside lullabies sit lullabies and sulliable, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 145 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lullabies and sulliable tie for the highest Scrabble score from lullabies at 11 points. The top 10 of 145 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in lullabies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lullabies 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 lullabies and sulliable, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in lullabies produces 2 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bullies. For points, the strongest plays are ballies and bullies — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling lullabies turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with labels. For points, the strongest plays are abseil, alible, bullae, labels, labile, liable, libels, suable, and usable — each worth 8 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 lullabies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abuse, aisle, bails, balls, bells, bills, and blues. For points, the strongest plays are ables, abuse, bails, bales, balls, basil, beals, beaus, bells, biles, bills, blase, blues, bulla, bulls, label, libel, lubes, and sable — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in lullabies produces 53 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, bail, ball, base, bell, bill, and blue. For points, the strongest plays are able, albs, baes, bail, bale, ball, bals, base, beal, beau, bell, bels, bias, bile, bill, bise, blae, blue, bull, isba, labs, libs, lube, sabe, slab, slub, and suba — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling lullabies turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, bus, ill, lab, lie, sea, and sub. For points, the strongest plays are abs, alb, bae, bal, bas, bel, bes, bis, bus, lab, lib, sab, sib, and sub — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lullabies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, be, is, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bi — each worth 4 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 lullabies 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.
lullabies 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 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for lullabies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
lullabies is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lullabies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lullabies and sulliable, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lullabies 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 lullabies produce 145 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 53 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.