Hidden inside flames sit flames and fleams, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 77 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
flames and fleams tie for the highest Scrabble score from flames at 11 points. The top 10 of 77 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in flames: one comes from rearranging its letters, and flames itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with flames. For points, the strongest plays are flames and fleams — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in flames. If a familiar word is all you need, start with false, flame, males, and meals. For points, the strongest plays are fames, flame, flams, and fleam — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in flames produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fame, lame, leaf, male, meal, safe, and sale. For points, the strongest plays are fame, fams, fems, and flam — 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 flames turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elf and sea. For points, the strongest plays are fam and fem — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in flames. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, and me. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, and fe — each worth 5 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 flames 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.
flames 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for flames. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
flames is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing flames unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are flames and fleams, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from flames 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 flames produce 77 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.