Hidden inside nimble sit milneb and nimble, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 40 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
milneb and nimble tie for the highest Scrabble score from nimble at 10 points. The top 10 of 40 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in nimble: one comes from rearranging its letters, and nimble 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 milneb and nimble, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling nimble produces exactly one five-letter word: limen. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in nimble produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with line, mile, and mine. For points, the strongest play is limb — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling nimble turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lie and men. For points, the strongest play is mib — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nimble. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, in, and me. For points, the strongest plays are be, bi, em, me, and mi — each worth 4 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 nimble 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.
nimble 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 nimble. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
nimble is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nimble unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are milneb and nimble, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from nimble 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 nimble produce 40 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 1 five-letter word, 11 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.