Hidden inside nearliest sit elaterins, entailers, nearliest and 1 other, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 752 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
elaterins, entailers, nearliest and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from nearliest at 9 points. The top 10 of 752 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 nine-letter words hiding in nearliest: three come from rearranging its letters, and nearliest 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 elaterins, entailers, nearliest, and treenails, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 26 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nearliest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earliest and silenter. For points, 26 words tie at 8 points, including earliest, silenter and alieners.
Rearranging the letters in nearliest produces 76 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eastern, entries and eternal. For points, 76 words tie at 7 points, including eastern, entries and eternal.
Unscrambling nearliest turns up 154 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, aliens and alters. For points, 154 words tie at 6 points, including alerts, aliens and alters.
There are 209 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nearliest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with saint, saner and siren. For points, 209 words tie at 5 points, including saint, saner and siren.
Rearranging the letters in nearliest produces 175 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, ants and arts. For points, 175 words tie at 4 points, including airs, ants and arts.
Unscrambling nearliest turns up 84 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant and are. For points, 84 words tie at 3 points, including air, ant and are.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nearliest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, 24 words tie at 2 points, including an, as and at.
15 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in nearliest plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in nearliest 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.
nearliest 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.
nearliest is one of four nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nearliest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are elaterins, entailers, nearliest, and treenails, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from nearliest 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 nearliest produce 752 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 nine-letter words, 26 eight-letter words, 76 seven-letter words, 154 six-letter words, 209 five-letter words, 175 four-letter words, 84 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.