Hidden inside nepotists sit nepotists and pottiness, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 335 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
nepotists and pottiness tie for the highest Scrabble score from nepotists at 11 points. The top 10 of 335 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in nepotists: one comes from rearranging its letters, and nepotists 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 nepotists and pottiness, 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 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nepotists. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is nepotist, 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 nepotists produces 20 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 insteps, pintoes, pistons, pointes, posiest, posties, postins, potsies, potties, sopites, spinets, spinose, spintos, stepson, and tiptoes, 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 nepotists turns up 57 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with noises, points, ponies, spines, and stones. For points, the strongest plays are estops, inspos, instep, netops, opines, opsins, pestos, pinots, pintos, pistes, piston, pitons, pitots, pointe, points, poises, ponies, pontes, posies, posits, posset, postie, postin, potent, potsie, ptoses, ptosis, snipes, sopite, spines, spinet, spinto, spites, stipes, stopes, tinpot, and tiptoe — 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 86 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nepotists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nests, noise, noses, notes, opens, penis, and poets. For points, the strongest plays are estop, inept, inspo, netop, opens, opine, opsin, peins, penis, peons, pesos, pesto, pests, petit, petti, petto, pines, pinot, pinto, pints, pions, pisos, piste, piton, pitot, poets, point, poise, pones, poses, posit, posse, posts, septs, sipes, snipe, snips, spent, spies, spine, spins, spite, spits, spots, steps, stipe, stope, stops, stopt, topes, and topis — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in nepotists produces 93 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nest, nets, nope, nose, note, ones, and open. For points, the strongest plays are nips, nope, open, opes, opts, pein, pens, pent, peon, peso, pest, pets, pies, pine, pins, pint, pion, piso, piss, pits, poet, pois, pone, pons, pose, post, pots, psis, psst, seps, sept, sipe, sips, snip, sops, spin, spit, spot, step, stop, epos, tips, tope, topi, and tops — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling nepotists turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, net, not, one, pen, pet, and pie. For points, the strongest plays are nip, ope, ops, opt, pen, pes, pet, pie, pin, pis, pit, poi, pos, pot, psi, pst, sip, sop, tip, and top — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nepotists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, no, on, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are 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.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in nepotists plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in nepotists 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.
nepotists 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 nepotists. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
nepotists is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nepotists unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are nepotists and pottiness, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from nepotists 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 nepotists produce 335 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 20 seven-letter words, 57 six-letter words, 86 five-letter words, 93 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.