Unscramble LENIFYING and you have 110 words, LENIFYING itself among them: it scores 16 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. 9 letters: 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
L12E1N12I1F4Y43I1N12G23
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from LENIFYING by length: 1 with 9 letters, 3 with 7, 15 with 6, 20 with 5, 26 with 4, 32 with 3 and 13 with 2. None has 8 letters.
Keep every letter of LENIFYING but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with LE · ending in NG · all 9-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with FLEYING and LIGNIFY (14 points each).
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Scrabble UK accepts LENIFYING, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| LENIFYING itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 110) | 82 | 109 | 72 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 27 of them: LENIFYING, FEYING, LENIFY, ELFING, FYLE, GENNY, NYING, FLEG, FY, FEG, FENI, FINI and 15 more. Words With Friends* skips 10 of them: INLYING, FENING, GYNIE, LINNEY, LINNY, GIF, FE, INNIE, NEG and GI. Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends* skip 1 of them: FI.
With one more tile, the letters of LENIFYING spell the words below.