Hidden inside nonartists sit nonartists and strontians, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 383 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
nonartists and strontians tie for the highest Scrabble score from nonartists at 10 points. The top 10 of 383 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in nonartists: one comes from rearranging its letters, and nonartists itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are nonartists and strontians, 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 nonartists turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are nonartist, strontian, and strontias, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nonartists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stations. For points, the strongest plays are arsonist, instants, intrants, onanists, stations, strontia, and transits — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in nonartists produces 32 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with artists, nations, and station. For points, the strongest plays are anoints, aorists, aristos, aroints, artists, attorns, instant, instars, intorts, intrant, introns, nasions, nations, natrons, nonarts, onanist, rations, rattons, santirs, satoris, sonants, statins, station, stators, stotins, strains, straits, tanists, tatsois, transit, tritons, and tsarist — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling nonartists turns up 66 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with artist, nation, roasts, saints, stains, stairs, and starts. For points, the strongest plays are anions, anoint, aorist, aristo, aroint, arsino, arsons, artist, assort, attorn, instar, intort, intron, intros, nasion, nation, natron, nattos, nitons, nitros, nonart, norias, ottars, ration, ratios, ratton, roasts, ronins, rosins, rostis, saints, santir, santos, sarins, satins, satori, sistra, sitars, snorts, sonant, sonars, stains, stairs, starts, statin, stator, stints, stoats, stotin, strain, strait, strati, taints, tanist, tantos, tarots, tatsoi, titans, toasts, tortas, trains, traits, triton, tronas, tsoris, and tsotsi — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 102 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nonartists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with irons, rains, riots, roast, saint, sorts, and stain. For points, the strongest plays are airns, airts, anion, antis, arsis, arson, astir, inros, intro, iotas, irons, nanos, naris, natto, niton, nitro, noirs, nonas, nonis, noria, noris, oasis, oasts, ornis, ossia, ostia, ottar, rains, ranis, rants, ratio, ratos, riant, riots, roans, roast, ronin, rosin, rosti, rotas, rotis, sains, saint, santo, sarin, saris, saros, sasin, satin, satis, sitar, snits, snort, snots, soars, sonar, soras, sorns, sorta, sorts, stain, stair, stans, stars, start, stats, stint, stirs, stoai, stoas, stoat, stots, stria, tains, taint, tanto, tarns, taros, tarot, tarsi, tarts, tasso, tians, tints, tiros, titan, toast, toits, toras, torsi, torta, torts, tosas, train, trait, trans, trass, trios, trois, trona, trots, and tsars — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in nonartists produces 97 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, ants, arts, into, iron, rain, and rats. For points, the strongest plays are ains, airn, airs, airt, aits, anis, anon, anti, ants, aros, arts, inns, inro, into, ions, iota, iron, nano, nans, naoi, naos, nits, noir, nona, noni, nori, nota, oars, oast, oats, orts, osar, ossa, rain, rais, rani, rant, rato, rats, rias, rins, riot, roan, rota, roti, rots, sain, sans, sari, sati, sins, sirs, sits, snit, snot, soar, sons, sora, sori, sorn, sort, sots, sris, stan, star, stat, stir, stoa, stot, tain, tans, taos, tarn, taro, tars, tart, tass, tats, tian, tins, tint, tiro, tits, toit, tons, tora, tori, torn, tors, tort, tosa, toss, tost, tots, trio, trot, and tsar — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling nonartists turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant, art, ass, its, nor, and not. For points, the strongest plays are ain, air, ais, ait, ani, ant, aro, ars, art, ass, ats, att, inn, ins, ion, its, nan, nit, nor, nos, not, oar, oat, ons, ora, ors, ort, rai, ran, ras, rat, ria, rin, rot, san, sat, sin, sir, sis, sit, son, sos, sot, sri, tan, tao, tar, tas, tat, tin, tis, tit, ton, tor, and tot — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nonartists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, it, and no. For points, the strongest plays are ai, an, ar, as, at, in, is, it, na, no, oi, on, or, os, si, so, ta, ti, and to — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in nonartists plus one additional letter.
nonartists 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
nonartists is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nonartists unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are nonartists and strontians, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from nonartists 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 nonartists produce 383 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 3 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 32 seven-letter words, 66 six-letter words, 102 five-letter words, 97 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.