Unscramble LIGHTENER and you have 267 words, LIGHTENER itself among them: it scores 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. It has 2 anagrams, each with the same 13 points: LENGTHIER and THEGNLIER. 9 letters: 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from LIGHTENER by length: 3 with 9 letters, 1 with 8, 25 with 7, 43 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 59 with 3 and 16 with 2.
There is a single one of the 8-letter words in LIGHTENER: GREENLIT, 9 points.
25 7-letter words you get when you unscramble LIGHTENER; 11 of them share the top score of 11. NEITHER, INTEGER and LIGHTER are everyday picks.
Among 43 6-letter words from LIGHTENER, the top score is 10, reached by 5. EITHER, LENGTH and ENTIRE are the familiar ones.
60 5-letter words made with LIGHTENER letters; 12 of them share the top score of 9. THERE, RIGHT and THREE are everyday picks.
Of the 60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble LIGHTENER, 4 score 8 points, the group's best. HERE, THEN and GIRL are the ones most people know.
Among the 3-letter words from LIGHTENER, GHI leads with 7 points, then ETH and HEN on 6. GET, LET and NET are the familiar ones.
Trade one tile of LIGHTENER for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 9-letter words: starting with LI · ending in ER · all 9-letter words
What LIGHTENER means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes. LIGHTENER is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIGHTENER itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 267) | 203 | 266 | 191 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: THEGNLIER, ENLIGHT, GHRELIN, HERLING, RIGHTEN, THEEING, HELING, HETING, EHING, NITHER, THRENE, ETHNE and 51 more, 63 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: GREENLIT, HENGE, HIREE, EELING, LENITE, REGIE, TENGE, GITE, INTEL, NEG, GI and TE, 12 in all. Not in Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: ITER.
These 7 words take every letter of LIGHTENER plus a single extra one.