Hidden inside nailers sit aliners, nailers, and renails, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 222 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aliners, nailers, and renails tie for the highest Scrabble score from nailers at 7 points. The top 10 of 222 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in nailers: two come from rearranging its letters, and nailers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aliners, nailers, and renails, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling nailers turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aliens, learns, and serial. For points, the strongest plays are aliens, aliner, alines, ariels, arisen, arsine, elains, larine, learns, lianes, linear, liners, nailer, renail, resail, sailer, saline, sarnie, serail, serial, and silane — 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 62 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nailers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alien, earns, lanes, laser, leans, and learn. For points, the strongest plays are airns, aisle, alien, aline, anile, anils, anise, ariel, arils, arise, arles, earls, earns, elain, elans, lairs, lanes, lares, laris, larns, laser, leans, learn, lears, lenis, liane, liars, liens, liers, liner, lines, liras, nails, nares, naris, nears, rails, rains, raise, rales, ranis, reais, reals, reins, renal, resin, rials, riels, riles, rinse, risen, saner, sarin, serai, seral, serin, siren, slain, slier, snail, snare, and snarl — 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 nailers produces 73 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, earn, ears, eras, lane, lean, and liar. For points, the strongest plays are ails, ains, airn, airs, ales, anes, anil, anis, ares, arie, aril, arse, earl, earn, ears, elan, eras, erns, ilea, ires, isle, lain, lair, lane, lari, larn, lars, lase, lean, lear, leas, leis, lens, liar, lias, lien, lier, lies, line, lins, lira, lire, naes, nail, nare, near, nils, rail, rain, rais, rale, rani, rase, real, rein, reis, rial, rias, riel, rile, rins, rise, sail, sain, sale, sane, sari, seal, sear, sera, sial, sine, and sire — 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 nailers turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, ear, era, lie, ran, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are ail, ain, air, ais, ale, als, ane, ani, are, ars, ear, els, ens, era, ern, ers, ins, ire, lar, las, lea, lei, lie, lin, lis, nae, nil, rai, ran, ras, rei, res, ria, rin, sae, sal, san, sea, sei, sel, sen, ser, sin, sir, and sri — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nailers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, al, an, ar, as, el, en, er, es, in, is, la, li, na, ne, re, and si — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
31 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in nailers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in nailers 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.
nailers 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 nailers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
nailers is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nailers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aliners, nailers, and renails, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from nailers 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 nailers produce 222 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 62 five-letter words, 73 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.