lingeringly needs no unscrambling at all — the eleven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 156 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lingeringly is the highest-scoring word from lingeringly, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 156 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eleven-letter word uses the letters in lingeringly — and it is lingeringly itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lingeringly turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is ringingly, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lingeringly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grilling. For points, the strongest plays are gillying, gingelly, and gingerly — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in lingeringly produces 19 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with relying, ringing, and yelling. For points, the strongest plays are gingely, gingery, gleying, and greying — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling lingeringly turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lining. For points, the strongest plays are glegly, gyring, and niggly — 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 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lingeringly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genii, grill, inner, and lying. For points, the strongest play is leggy — 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 lingeringly produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with girl, grey, line, nine, rely, ring, and yell. For points, the strongest plays are eggy and yegg — 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 lingeringly turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egg, gig, ill, leg, lie, and rig. For points, the strongest play is gey — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lingeringly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in. For points, the strongest play is ye — worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
lingeringly 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 one sense for lingeringly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
lingeringly is the only eleven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lingeringly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is lingeringly, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from lingeringly 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 lingeringly produce 156 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eleven-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 19 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.