Hidden inside nepotism sit nepotism and pimentos, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 317 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
nepotism and pimentos tie for the highest Scrabble score from nepotism at 12 points. The top 10 of 317 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in nepotism: one comes from rearranging its letters, and nepotism 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 nepotism and pimentos, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in nepotism produces 13 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 emptins, impones, mopiest, optimes, peonism, pimento, and postmen, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling nepotism turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with points and ponies. For points, the strongest plays are impone, impose, impost, mispen, optime, pitmen, potmen, and tempos — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 75 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nepotism. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, mints, moist, noise, notes, opens, and penis. For points, the strongest plays are mopes, poems, pomes, stomp, tempi, tempo, and temps — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in nepotism produces 101 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mine, mint, mops, most, nest, nets, and nope. For points, the strongest plays are mips, mope, mops, poem, pome, poms, simp, imps, and temp — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling nepotism turns up 68 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, men, met, mop, net, not, and one. For points, the strongest plays are imp, mop, and pom — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nepotism. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, me, no, on, and so. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mi, mo, om, op, pe, pi, and po — each worth 4 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 nepotism 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.
nepotism 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 3-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 nepotism. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
nepotism is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nepotism unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are nepotism and pimentos, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from nepotism 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 nepotism produce 317 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 75 five-letter words, 101 four-letter words, 68 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.