narthex needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 97 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
narthex is the highest-scoring word from narthex, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 97 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in narthex — and it is narthex itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling narthex turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are anther and thenar, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in narthex. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earth, extra, and heart. For points, the strongest plays are extra, retax, and taxer — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in narthex produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, hate, hear, heat, near, neat, and next. For points, the strongest play is next — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling narthex turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest play is hex — worth 13 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 narthex. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an, at, eh, ex, ha, and he. For points, the strongest plays are ax and ex — each worth 9 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 narthex 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.
narthex 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in narthex carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for narthex. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
narthex is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing narthex unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is narthex, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from narthex 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 narthex produce 97 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.