Hidden inside nastiness sit antsiness and nastiness, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 207 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
antsiness and nastiness tie for the highest Scrabble score from nastiness at 9 points. The top 10 of 207 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in nastiness: one comes from rearranging its letters, and nastiness 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 antsiness and nastiness, 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 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nastiness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with insanest. For points, the strongest plays are insanest, sestinas, and stanines — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in nastiness produces 15 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 assents, entasis, inanest, nasties, sanseis, seitans, sennits, sestina, siennas, siestas, sinnets, stanine, tansies, tassies, and tisanes, 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 nastiness turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with assist, insane, saints, sanest, stains, and tennis. For points, the strongest plays are anenst, anises, assent, assets, assist, inanes, innate, insane, insets, saints, sanest, sanies, sansei, sasins, satins, seitan, sennas, sennit, sienna, siesta, sinnet, stains, stanes, stases, stasis, steins, tasses, tassie, tenias, tennis, tineas, and tisane — 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 46 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nastiness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asses, nests, nines, saint, seats, sites, and stain. For points, the strongest plays are anent, anise, antes, antis, asses, asset, easts, entia, etnas, inane, inset, nates, neats, neist, nests, nines, nites, sains, saint, sanes, sasin, sates, satin, satis, seats, senna, sensa, senti, sents, sines, sises, sites, snits, stain, stane, stans, stein, sties, tains, tases, tasse, teins, tenia, tians, tinea, and tines — 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 nastiness produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, east, eats, neat, nest, nets, and nine. For points, the strongest plays are ains, aits, anes, anis, ante, anti, ants, ates, east, eats, ests, etas, etna, inns, naes, nans, neat, ness, nest, nets, nine, nite, nits, sain, sane, sans, sass, sate, sati, seas, seat, seis, sent, seta, sets, sine, sins, site, sits, snit, stan, tain, tans, tase, tass, teas, tein, tens, tian, ties, tine, and tins — 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 nastiness turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ass, ate, eat, its, net, and sat. For points, the strongest plays are ain, ais, ait, ane, ani, ant, ass, ate, ats, eat, ens, ess, est, eta, inn, ins, its, nae, nan, net, nit, sae, san, sat, sea, sei, sen, set, sin, sis, sit, tae, tan, tas, tea, ten, tes, tie, tin, and tis — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nastiness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, an, as, at, en, es, et, in, is, it, na, ne, si, ta, te, and ti — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in nastiness plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in nastiness 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.
nastiness 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 three senses for nastiness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
nastiness is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nastiness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are antsiness and nastiness, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from nastiness 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 nastiness produce 207 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 15 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 46 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.