Hidden inside nighty sit nighty and thingy, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 28 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
nighty and thingy tie for the highest Scrabble score from nighty at 13 points. The top 10 of 28 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in nighty: one comes from rearranging its letters, and nighty itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are nighty and thingy, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
3 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in nighty plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in nighty 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.
nighty 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in nighty carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
nighty is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nighty unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are nighty and thingy, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from nighty 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 nighty produce 28 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, 10 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.