fingernail needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 338 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fingernail is the highest-scoring word from fingernail, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 338 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in fingernail — and it is fingernail itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling fingernail produces exactly one nine-letter word: renailing. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fingernail. If a familiar word is all you need, start with learning. For points, the strongest plays are finagler, infringe, refiling, and refining — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in fingernail produces 38 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airline, earning and failing. For points, 12 words tie at 11 points, including failing, fearing and fragile.
Unscrambling fingernail turns up 47 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airing, filing and finale. For points, 9 words tie at 10 points, including filing, finger and firing.
There are 69 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fingernail. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alien, angel and anger. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including grief, fagin and feign.
Rearranging the letters in fingernail produces 94 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, fail and fair. For points, the strongest plays are fang, flag, frag, and frig — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling fingernail turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air and are. For points, the strongest plays are fag, fig, and gif — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fingernail. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, if, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, fe, and if — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
4 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in fingernail plus one additional letter.
fingernail is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for fingernail. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
fingernail is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fingernail unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is fingernail, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from fingernail earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in fingernail produce 338 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 10 eight-letter words, 38 seven-letter words, 47 six-letter words, 69 five-letter words, 94 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.