Hidden inside nanotubes sit butanones and nanotubes, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 350 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
butanones and nanotubes tie for the highest Scrabble score from nanotubes at 11 points. The top 10 of 350 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in nanotubes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and nanotubes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are butanones and nanotubes, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nanotubes. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are butanone and nanotube, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in nanotubes produces 7 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bannets, bonnets, butanes, and subtone, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling nanotubes turns up 29 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are absent, bannet, batons, beanos, beauts, bentos, betons, bonnes, bonnet, butane, buteos, obtuse, subnet, tabuns, unbans, and unbent, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 87 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nanotubes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with about, abuse, aunts, autos, beans, beast, and beats. For points, the strongest plays are abets, about, abuse, abuts, banes, banns, baste, bates, baton, beano, beans, beast, beats, beaus, beaut, bento, bents, besot, betas, beton, boast, boats, bones, bonne, bonus, bosun, botas, bouse, bouts, bunas, bunns, bunts, buteo, butes, ebons, nabes, sabot, tabes, tabun, tabus, tsuba, tsubo, tubae, tubas, tubes, and unban — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in nanotubes produces 120 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, anus, aunt, auto, bans, base, and bats. For points, the strongest plays are abet, abut, baes, bane, bans, base, bast, bate, bats, bean, beat, beau, bens, bent, best, beta, bets, boas, boat, bone, bota, bots, bout, buna, bunn, buns, bunt, bust, bute, buts, ebon, nabe, nabs, nebs, nobs, nubs, obas, obes, sabe, snob, snub, soba, stab, stob, stub, suba, tabs, tabu, tuba, tube, tubs, and unbe — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling nanotubes turns up 77 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ate, ban, bat, bet, bun, and bus. For points, the strongest plays are abs, bae, ban, bas, bat, ben, bes, bet, boa, bos, bot, bun, bus, but, nab, neb, nob, nub, oba, obe, sab, sob, sub, tab, and tub — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nanotubes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, be, no, on, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bo — each worth 4 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 nanotubes and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
nanotubes is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
Dictionaries record one sense for nanotubes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
nanotubes is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nanotubes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are butanones and nanotubes, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from nanotubes 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 nanotubes produce 350 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 29 six-letter words, 87 five-letter words, 120 four-letter words, 77 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.