Hidden inside lumberings sit lumberings and slumbering, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 643 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lumberings and slumbering tie for the highest Scrabble score from lumberings at 15 points. The top 10 of 643 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in lumberings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lumberings itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lumberings and slumbering, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lumberings turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lumbering and rumblings, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lumberings. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bemusing, embruing, grumbles and 3 more, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in lumberings produces 51 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mingles and numbers. For points, the strongest plays are begrims, berming, bluming, and grumble — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lumberings turns up 119 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with begins, beings and brings. For points, the strongest plays are begrim and begums — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 159 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lumberings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with begin, begun and being. For points, the strongest play is begum — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in lumberings produces 171 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with begs, blue and legs. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including bums, berm and brim.
Unscrambling lumberings turns up 100 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beg, big and bug. For points, the strongest plays are bum and mib — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lumberings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, in and is. For points, 7 words tie at 4 points, including be, me and um.
lumberings is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
Dictionaries record two senses for lumberings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
lumberings is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lumberings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lumberings and slumbering, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lumberings 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 lumberings produce 643 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 3 nine-letter words, 17 eight-letter words, 51 seven-letter words, 119 six-letter words, 159 five-letter words, 171 four-letter words, 100 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.