64 words come out when you unscramble LAMES, starting with LAMES itself: 7 in Scrabble, 9 in Words With Friends. LAMES has 7 anagrams here, ALMES, LEAMS and MALES among them, all scoring 7 like LAMES itself. Among the shorter answers, 18 reach 6 points, SAME, MALE and MEAL among them. It has 5 letters, 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
By length, the words from LAMES split into 8 with 5 letters, 24 with 4, 21 with 3 and 11 with 2.
Keep every letter of LAMES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with LA · ending in ES · all 5-letter words
The meaning of LAMES, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept LAMES, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAMES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 64) | 48 | 64 | 47 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 16 of them: LEAMS, MELAS, MESAL, SAMEL, AMES, LEAM, MALS, MASE, MELA, AME, MAL, SAM and 4 more. Words With Friends* skips 1 of them: MES.
Each word below uses all the letters of LAMES and one more.