Hidden inside merlin sit limner and merlin, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 48 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
limner and merlin tie for the highest Scrabble score from merlin at 8 points. The top 10 of 48 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in merlin: one comes from rearranging its letters, and merlin itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are limner and merlin, 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 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in merlin. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are limen, miler, and miner, 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 merlin produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with line, mile, and mine. For points, the strongest plays are emir, lime, limn, merl, mien, mile, mine, mire, and rime — 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 merlin turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lie and men. For points, the strongest plays are elm, mel, men, mil, mir, nim, rem, and rim — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in merlin. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, and mi — 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 merlin and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
merlin 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 two senses for merlin. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
merlin is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing merlin unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are limner and merlin, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from merlin 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 merlin produce 48 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.