Hidden inside nearness sit ensnares, nearness, and rennases, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 106 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ensnares, nearness, and rennases tie for the highest Scrabble score from nearness at 8 points. The top 10 of 106 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in nearness: two come from rearranging its letters, and nearness itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ensnares, nearness, and rennases, 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 nearness produces 2 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 ensnare and rennase, 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 nearness turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erases. For points, the strongest plays are arenes, easers, erases, ranees, sarees, sarsen, sennas, snares, and sneers — 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 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nearness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns, eases, erase, saner, and sense. For points, the strongest plays are arene, arses, earns, easer, eases, erase, ernes, erses, esnes, nares, nears, nenes, ranee, rases, reses, saner, sanes, saree, sears, seers, senes, senna, sensa, sense, seres, snare, and sneer — 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 nearness produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, ears, ease, eras, near, sane, and seas. For points, the strongest plays are anes, ares, arse, earn, ears, ease, eras, erne, erns, eses, esne, esse, naes, nans, nare, near, nene, ness, rase, rees, sane, sans, sear, seas, seen, seer, sees, sene, sera, sere, and sers — 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 nearness turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ass, ear, era, ran, sea, and see. For points, the strongest plays are ane, are, ars, ass, ear, ens, era, ere, ern, ers, ess, nae, nan, nee, ran, ras, ree, res, sae, san, sea, see, sen, and ser — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nearness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and as. For points, the strongest plays are ae, an, ar, as, en, er, es, na, ne, and re — each worth 2 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 nearness and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
nearness 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 one sense for nearness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
nearness is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nearness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ensnares, nearness, and rennases, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from nearness 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 nearness produce 106 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.