nightingale needs no unscrambling at all — the eleven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 371 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
nightingale is the highest-scoring word from nightingale, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 371 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eleven-letter word uses the letters in nightingale — and it is nightingale itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling nightingale produces exactly one ten-letter word: lightening. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling nightingale turns up 3 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lightning. For points, the strongest plays are alighting and lightning — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nightingale. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lighting. For points, the strongest plays are lighting and neighing — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in nightingale produces 43 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gaining, hailing and hanging. For points, the strongest plays are hanging, hinging, and nighing — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling nightingale turns up 56 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eating, hating, length, and lining. For points, the strongest plays are haggle and higgle — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 64 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nightingale. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, aging and alien. For points, the strongest play is gighe — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in nightingale produces 88 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, gang and gate. For points, the strongest plays are ghat, hang, and nigh — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling nightingale turns up 69 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ant and ate. For points, the strongest plays are ghi and hag — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nightingale. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an and at. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
1 twelve-letter word can be made using all the letters in nightingale plus one additional letter.
nightingale 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for nightingale. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
nightingale is the only eleven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nightingale unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is nightingale, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from nightingale 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 nightingale produce 371 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eleven-letter word, 1 ten-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 22 eight-letter words, 43 seven-letter words, 56 six-letter words, 64 five-letter words, 88 four-letter words, 69 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.