Hidden inside merlins sit limners and merlins, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 125 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
limners and merlins tie for the highest Scrabble score from merlins at 9 points. The top 10 of 125 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in merlins: one comes from rearranging its letters, and merlins 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 limners and merlins, 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 merlins turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are limens, limner, merlin, milers, miners, simnel, and smiler, 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 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in merlins. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lines, miles, risen, siren, and smile. For points, the strongest plays are emirs, limen, limes, limns, merls, miens, miler, miles, miner, mines, mires, miser, rimes, slime, and smile — 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 merlins produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lies, line, mile, mine, rise, and slim. For points, the strongest plays are elms, emir, lime, limn, mels, merl, mien, mile, mils, mine, mire, mirs, mise, nims, rems, rime, rims, semi, and slim — 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 merlins turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lie, men, sin, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are elm, ems, ism, mel, men, mes, mil, mir, mis, nim, rem, rim, and sim — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in merlins. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, 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 merlins 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.
merlins 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 merlins. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
merlins is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing merlins unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are limners and merlins, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from merlins 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 merlins produce 125 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.