Hidden inside nestmates sit nestmates and statesmen, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 256 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
nestmates and statesmen tie for the highest Scrabble score from nestmates at 11 points. The top 10 of 256 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in nestmates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and nestmates 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 nestmates and statesmen, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nestmates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are nestmate and tameness, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in nestmates produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with estates, meanest, neatest, and tensest. For points, the strongest plays are meanest, metates, and stamens — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling nestmates turns up 36 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with estate, sanest and states. For points, 18 words tie at 8 points, including steams, aments and enemas.
There are 74 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nestmates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eases, eaten and mates. For points, 34 words tie at 7 points, including mates, means and meant.
Rearranging the letters in nestmates produces 76 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, ants and ease. For points, 29 words tie at 6 points, including amen, mass and mate.
Unscrambling nestmates turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ass and ate. For points, 11 words tie at 5 points, including man, men and met.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nestmates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and as. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in nestmates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in nestmates 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.
nestmates is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
nestmates is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nestmates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are nestmates and statesmen, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from nestmates 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 nestmates produce 256 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 36 six-letter words, 74 five-letter words, 76 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.