Hidden inside neither sit neither and therein, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 87 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
neither and therein tie for the highest Scrabble score from neither at 10 points. The top 10 of 87 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in neither: one comes from rearranging its letters, and neither itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with neither. For points, the strongest plays are neither and therein — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling neither turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with either and entire. For points, the strongest plays are either, herein, hinter, inhere, nether, and theine — 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 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in neither. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, their, there, thine, and three. For points, the strongest plays are ether, hiree, ither, thein, their, there, thine, and three — 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 neither produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with here, hint, hire, rent, teen, thee, and then. For points, the strongest plays are heir, hent, here, hern, hint, hire, thee, then, thin, and thir — 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 neither turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hen, her, hit, net, ten, the, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are eth, hen, her, het, hie, hin, hit, nth, and the — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in neither. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, and hi — each worth 5 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 neither 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.
neither 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in neither carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for neither. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
neither is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing neither unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are neither and therein, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from neither 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 neither produce 87 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.