Hidden inside nearby sit barney and nearby, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 74 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
barney and nearby tie for the highest Scrabble score from nearby at 11 points. The top 10 of 74 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in nearby: one comes from rearranging its letters, and nearby itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are barney and nearby, 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 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nearby. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are barny, barye, bayer, and yerba, 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 nearby produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bare, barn, bean, bear, earn, near, and year. For points, the strongest plays are abye, bray, and byre — 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 nearby turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with any, are, aye, ban, bar, bay, and bra. For points, the strongest plays are aby, bay, bey, and bye — 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nearby. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, ay, be, and by. For points, the strongest play is by — worth 7 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 nearby and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
nearby 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for nearby. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
nearby is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nearby unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are barney and nearby, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from nearby 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 nearby produce 74 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.