Hidden inside nations sit anoints, nations, and onanist, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 102 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
anoints, nations, and onanist tie for the highest Scrabble score from nations at 7 points. The top 10 of 102 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in nations: two come from rearranging its letters, and nations itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nations. For points, the strongest plays are anoints, nations, and onanist — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with saint and stain. For points, 15 words tie at 5 points, including saint, stain and anion.
Rearranging the letters in nations produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, into and tans. For points, 33 words tie at 4 points, including ants, into and tans.
Unscrambling nations turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, its and not. For points, 28 words tie at 3 points, including ant, its and not.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, 17 words tie at 2 points, including an, as and at.
14 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in nations plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in nations and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
nations 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for nations. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
nations is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nations unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are anoints, nations, and onanist, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from nations 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 nations produce 102 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.