42 words come out when you unscramble LOINS, starting with LOINS itself: 5 in Scrabble, 7 in Words With Friends. It has 3 anagrams, each with the same 5 points: LINOS, LIONS and NOILS. 11 shorter words score 4, among them SOIL, LION and OILS. The 5 letters split into 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
L12O1I1N12S1
Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Counting the words from LOINS by length: 4 with 5 letters, 11 with 4, 16 with 3 and 11 with 2.
Keep every letter of LOINS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with LO · ending in NS · all 5-letter words
LOINS first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept LOINS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOINS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 42) | 36 | 42 | 35 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: IOS, ISO, LOS, NIS, OIS and IO, 6 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: OI.
Each word below uses all the letters of LOINS and one more.