Hidden inside nailing sit alining and nailing, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 46 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alining and nailing tie for the highest Scrabble score from nailing at 8 points. The top 10 of 46 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in nailing: one comes from rearranging its letters, and nailing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nailing. For points, the strongest plays are alining and nailing — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling nailing turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lining. For points, the strongest plays are ailing, lignan, lignin, lining, and nilgai — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nailing. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are algin, align, liang, ligan, and linga, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in nailing produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain and nail. For points, the strongest plays are agin, gain, glia, lang, and ling — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling nailing turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gal and nag. For points, the strongest plays are gal, gan, gin, lag, and nag — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nailing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and in. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in nailing 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.
nailing 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.
nailing is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nailing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are alining and nailing, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from nailing 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 nailing produce 46 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.