Hidden inside nettles sit nettles and telnets, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 72 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
nettles and telnets tie for the highest Scrabble score from nettles at 7 points. The top 10 of 72 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in nettles: one comes from rearranging its letters, and nettles itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are nettles and telnets, 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 nettles turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with settle. For points, the strongest plays are nestle, nettle, settle, telnet, and tenets — 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 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nettles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with steel, teens, tense, and tents. For points, the strongest plays are leets, lenes, lense, netts, sente, sleet, steel, stele, stent, teels, teens, teles, tenet, tense, and tents — 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 nettles produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, lent, lets, nest, nets, seen, and sent. For points, the strongest plays are eels, else, esne, lees, leet, lens, lent, lest, lets, nest, nets, nett, seel, seen, sene, sent, sett, stet, teel, teen, tees, tele, tels, tens, tent, test, and tets — 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 nettles turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with let, net, see, set, and ten. For points, the strongest plays are eel, els, ens, est, lee, let, nee, net, see, sel, sen, set, tee, tel, ten, tes, and tet — 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nettles. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are el, en, es, et, ne, and te, 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 nettles 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.
nettles 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 three senses for nettles. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
nettles is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nettles unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are nettles and telnets, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from nettles 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 nettles produce 72 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.