Hidden inside limes sit limes, miles, slime and 1 other, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 37 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
limes, miles, slime and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from limes at 7 points. The top 10 of 37 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 five-letter words hiding in limes: three come from rearranging its letters, and limes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with miles and smile. For points, the strongest plays are limes, miles, slime, and smile — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in limes produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lies, mile, and slim. For points, 8 words tie at 6 points, including mile, slim and elms.
29 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in limes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in limes and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
limes 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.
limes is one of four five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing limes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are limes, miles, slime, and smile, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from limes 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 limes produce 37 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.