Hidden inside nonesuch sit nonesuch and unchosen, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 121 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
nonesuch and unchosen tie for the highest Scrabble score from nonesuch at 13 points. The top 10 of 121 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in nonesuch: one comes from rearranging its letters, and nonesuch itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are nonesuch and unchosen, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in nonesuch produces 2 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 cohunes and nonsuch, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling nonesuch turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chosen. For points, the strongest plays are chosen, chouse, cohune, and ouches — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nonesuch. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chose, cones, house, and shone. For points, the strongest plays are chons, chose, chuse, echos, hocus, and oches — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in nonesuch produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cone, cons, cues, hens, hose, none, and nose. For points, the strongest plays are chon, cosh, echo, oche, ouch, and such — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling nonesuch turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cue, hen, nun, one, she, and son. For points, the strongest play is och — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nonesuch. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, ho, no, oh, on, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, ho, oh, sh, and uh — each worth 5 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 nonesuch and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
nonesuch 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for nonesuch. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
nonesuch is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nonesuch unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are nonesuch and unchosen, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from nonesuch 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 nonesuch produce 121 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.