Hidden inside nesses sit nesses and senses, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 21 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
nesses and senses tie for the highest Scrabble score from nesses at 6 points. The top 10 of 21 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in nesses: one comes from rearranging its letters, and nesses itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with senses. For points, the strongest plays are nesses and senses — 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 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nesses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sense. For points, the strongest plays are esnes, esses, senes, and sense — 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 nesses produces 7 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with seen and sees. For points, the strongest plays are eses, esne, esse, ness, seen, sees, and sene — 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 nesses turns up 5 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with see. For points, the strongest plays are ens, ess, nee, see, and sen — 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 3 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nesses. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are en, es, and ne, 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 nesses and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
nesses 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 1-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 nesses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
nesses is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nesses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are nesses and senses, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from nesses 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 nesses produce 21 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 5 three-letter words and 3 two-letter words.