Hidden inside nailer sit aliner, larine, linear and 2 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 84 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aliner, larine, linear and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from nailer at 6 points. The top 10 of 84 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 six-letter words hiding in nailer: four come from rearranging its letters, and nailer itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aliner, larine, linear, nailer, and renail, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nailer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alien and learn. For points, the strongest plays are alien, aline, anile, ariel, elain, learn, liane, liner, and renal — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in nailer produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, lane, lean, liar, line, nail, and near. For points, the strongest plays are airn, anil, arie, aril, earl, earn, elan, ilea, lain, lair, lane, lari, larn, lean, lear, liar, lien, lier, line, lira, lire, nail, nare, near, rail, rain, rale, rani, real, rein, rial, riel, and rile — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling nailer turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, ear, era, lie, and ran. For points, the strongest plays are ail, ain, air, ale, ane, ani, are, ear, era, ern, ire, lar, lea, lei, lie, lin, nae, nil, rai, ran, rei, ria, and rin — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nailer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and in. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, al, an, ar, el, en, er, in, la, li, na, ne, and re — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
31 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in nailer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in nailer and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
nailer 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 one sense for nailer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
nailer is one of five six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nailer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aliner, larine, linear, nailer, and renail, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from nailer 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 nailer produce 84 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.