nimbleness needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 212 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
nimbleness is the highest-scoring word from nimbleness, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 212 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in nimbleness — and it is nimbleness itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nimbleness. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are beslimes and besmiles, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in nimbleness produces 13 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are beslime, besmile, and milnebs, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling nimbleness turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with smiles. For points, the strongest plays are binmen, milneb, and nimble — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nimbleness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bless, lines and miles. For points, the strongest play is limbs — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in nimbleness produces 65 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with been, bees and else. For points, the strongest plays are limb and mibs — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling nimbleness turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bee, lie and men. For points, the strongest play is mib — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nimbleness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, in, is, and me. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including be, me and bi.
nimbleness 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 5-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 nimbleness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
nimbleness is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nimbleness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is nimbleness, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from nimbleness 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 nimbleness produce 212 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 5 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 65 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.