Hidden inside natures sit natures and saunter, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 201 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
natures and saunter tie for the highest Scrabble score from natures at 7 points. The top 10 of 201 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in natures: one comes from rearranging its letters, and natures itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with natures. For points, the strongest plays are natures and saunter — 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 natures turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nature. For points, the strongest plays are antres, astern, nature, santur, sterna, tuners, unrest, unseat, and urates — 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 43 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in natures. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunts, earns, nurse, rates, rents, saner, and stare. For points, the strongest plays are antes, antre, aster, aunts, aures, earns, etnas, nares, nates, nears, neats, nerts, nurse, rants, rates, rents, resat, runes, runts, saner, saute, snare, stane, stare, stern, sutra, tares, tarns, taser, tears, terns, trans, trues, tunas, tuner, tunes, turns, unset, urase, urate, ureas, ursae, and usnea — 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 natures produces 76 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, anus, arts, aunt, earn, ears, and east. For points, the strongest plays are anes, ante, ants, anus, ares, arse, arts, ates, aunt, earn, ears, east, eats, eras, erns, erst, etas, etna, naes, nare, near, neat, nest, nets, nuts, rant, rase, rate, rats, rent, rest, rets, rues, rune, runs, runt, ruse, rust, ruts, sane, sate, sear, seat, sent, sera, seta, stan, star, stun, suer, suet, sura, sure, tans, tare, tarn, tars, tase, taus, tear, teas, tens, tern, tres, true, tsar, tuna, tune, tuns, turn, urea, urns, ursa, user, utas, and utes — 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 natures turns up 53 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 plays are ane, ant, are, ars, art, ate, ats, ear, eat, eau, ens, era, ern, ers, est, eta, nae, net, nus, nut, ran, ras, rat, res, ret, rue, run, rut, sae, san, sat, sau, sea, sen, ser, set, sue, sun, tae, tan, tar, tas, tau, tea, ten, tes, tun, uns, urn, use, uta, ute, and uts — 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 natures. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ae, an, ar, as, at, en, er, es, et, na, ne, nu, re, ta, te, un, us, and ut — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
22 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in natures plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in natures 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.
natures 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 five senses for natures. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
natures is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing natures unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are natures and saunter, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from natures 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 natures produce 201 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 43 five-letter words, 76 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.