Hidden inside nickels sit nickels, nickles, and slicken, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 107 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
nickels, nickles, and slicken tie for the highest Scrabble score from nickels at 13 points. The top 10 of 107 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in nickels: two come from rearranging its letters, and nickels itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nickels. For points, the strongest plays are nickels, nickles, and slicken — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling nickels turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nickel. For points, the strongest plays are clinks, nickel, nickle, sicken, and sickle — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nickels. If a familiar word is all you need, start with licks, likes, lines, links, necks, since, and slice. For points, the strongest plays are clink, licks, necks, nicks, slick, sneck, and snick — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in nickels produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ices, inks, lice, lick, lies, like, and line. For points, the strongest plays are icks, lick, neck, nick, and sick — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling nickels turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, ink, lie, sin, and ski. For points, the strongest play is ick — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nickels. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and is. For points, the strongest play is ki — worth 6 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 nickels 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.
nickels 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 four senses for nickels. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
nickels is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nickels unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are nickels, nickles, and slicken, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from nickels 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 nickels produce 107 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.