Unscramble LENGTHENS and you have 178 words, LENGTHENS itself among them: it scores 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, LENGTHEN leads with 12 points. The 9 letters split into 2 vowels and 7 consonants.
L12E1N12G23T1H43E1N12S1
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from LENGTHENS by length: 1 with 9 letters, 1 with 8, 5 with 7, 16 with 6, 48 with 5, 60 with 4, 36 with 3 and 11 with 2.
LENGTHEN is the only one of the 8-letter words made with LENGTHENS letters; it scores 12 points.
HENGES, LENGTH and THEGNS share the top score of 10 among the 6-letter words you get when you unscramble LENGTHENS. GENTLE and NESTLE are the ones most people know.
48 5-letter words from LENGTHENS; 4 of them share the top score of 9. TEENS, STEEL and SHEET are everyday picks.
GHEE scores highest among the 4-letter words in LENGTHENS at 8 points, ahead of ETHE and ETHS on 7. THEN, TEEN and SEEN are the ones most people know.
Trade one tile of LENGTHENS for another and you can spell these 3 words:
More 9-letter words: starting with LE · ending in NS · all 9-letter words
LENGTHENS first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
LENGTHENS works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| LENGTHENS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 178) | 139 | 178 | 125 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 39 of them: GHEST, ETHNE, GENNELS, GENNETS, HELES, HETES, LENGEST, SHEEL, THEES, ETHE, GENNEL, GENNET and 27 more. Words With Friends* skips 14 of them: HENGES, HENGE, SHEN, TENGES, TENGE, TENNES, NEGS, NENES, TENNE, ESNE, NEG, EST and 2 more.
Each word below uses all the letters of LENGTHENS and one more.