Hidden inside luminaries sit luminaires and luminaries, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 674 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
luminaires and luminaries tie for the highest Scrabble score from luminaries at 12 points. The top 10 of 674 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in luminaries: one comes from rearranging its letters, and luminaries 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 luminaires and luminaries, 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 luminaries turns up 6 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aluminise, luminaire, semilunar, unsimilar, and urinemias, 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 13 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in luminaries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airlines. For points, the strongest plays are alienism, alumines, aneurism, marlines, mensural, milesian, minerals, mislearn, numerals, ramilies, and urinemia — 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 luminaries produces 50 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airline, manlier, manures, remains, seminar, similar, and urinals. For points, the strongest plays are almners, alumine, alumins, limners, mailers, malines, manlier, manures, marines, marline, marlins, maulers, mausier, menials, merlins, milieus, milreis, mineral, mislain, misrule, mureins, murines, numeral, railmen, ramilie, realism, remails, remains, ruminal, seminal, seminar, serumal, similar, simular, slimier, smilier, surname, uranism, and uremias — 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 luminaries turns up 118 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aliens, armies, emails, learns, manure, murals, and raisin. For points, the strongest plays are aimers, airmen, almner, alumin, alumni, amines, amuser, animes, animis, animus, armies, emails, imines, inarms, inseam, larums, lemans, lemurs, limans, limens, limier, limina, limner, linums, lumens, lumina, mailer, mailes, maline, manure, marine, marlin, mauler, menial, mensal, merlin, mesial, mesian, miauls, milers, milieu, miners, mirins, mislie, muesli, mulies, murals, murein, murine, muslin, namers, ramens, ramies, ramins, realms, remail, remain, remans, rumens, rumina, saimin, salume, salumi, samiel, samier, semina, simian, simile, simlin, simnel, smiler, surimi, ulemas, unarms, unseam, and uremia — 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 186 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in luminaries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lamer, lanes, laser, leans, learn, liars, and lines. For points, the strongest plays are ileum, ilium, imine, inarm, lamer, lames, larum, leman, lemur, liman, limas, limen, limes, limns, linum, lumas, lumen, maile, mails, mains, mairs, males, manes, manis, manse, manus, mares, marls, marse, maser, mauls, meals, means, mensa, menus, merls, miaul, miens, miler, miles, milia, minae, minas, miner, mines, minis, minus, mires, mirin, miser, aimer, almes, alums, amens, amies, amine, amins, amirs, amuse, anime, animi, arums, email, emirs, mules, mulie, munis, mural, muras, mures, muser, namer, names, nemas, neums, ramen, ramie, ramin, ramus, realm, reams, reman, rimes, rumen, salmi, serum, simar, slime, smear, smile, ulema, and unarm — 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 luminaries produces 182 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs, amen, anus, arms, lame, and lane. For points, the strongest plays are aims, alme, alms, alum, amen, amie, amin, amir, amis, amus, arms, arum, lame, lams, lima, lime, limn, luma, lums, maes, mail, main, mair, male, mane, mani, mans, mare, marl, mars, maul, maun, meal, mean, mels, menu, merl, mesa, mien, mile, mils, mina, mine, mini, mire, miri, mirs, mise, mule, muni, muns, mura, mure, muse, name, nema, neum, nims, rami, rams, ream, rems, rime, rims, rums, same, seam, semi, sima, slam, slim, slum, elms, emir, emus, and sumi — 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 luminaries turns up 89 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air, are, arm, ear, era, and lie. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ami, amu, arm, elm, ems, emu, ism, lam, lum, mae, man, mar, mas, mel, men, mes, mil, mir, mis, mun, mus, nam, nim, ram, rem, rim, rum, sim, sum, and ums — 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 28 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in luminaries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, in, is, me, and um. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, mi, mu, and um — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in luminaries plus one additional letter.
luminaries 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
luminaries is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing luminaries unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are luminaires and luminaries, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from luminaries 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 luminaries produce 674 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 6 nine-letter words, 13 eight-letter words, 50 seven-letter words, 118 six-letter words, 186 five-letter words, 182 four-letter words, 89 three-letter words and 28 two-letter words.