nonpareil needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 319 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
nonpareil is the highest-scoring word from nonpareil, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 319 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in nonpareil — and it is nonpareil itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling nonpareil produces exactly one eight-letter word: pelorian. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in nonpareil produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with plainer. For points, the strongest plays are opaline, pannier, peloria, plainer, planner, praline, and proline — 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 nonpareil turns up 35 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with online. For points, the strongest plays are alpine, nonpar, orpine, palier, panier, panino, panner, parole, penial, pennia, pernio, pineal, pinnae, pinnal, pinner, pinole, planer, prolan, rapine, and replan — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 71 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nonpareil. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alien, alone, inner, learn, opera, piano, and plain. For points, the strongest plays are apron, arpen, lapin, loper, nopal, opera, opine, orpin, paeon, paleo, paler, panel, panne, paren, pareo, parle, parol, pearl, pelon, penal, penna, penni, peril, piano, pilar, pilea, pinna, pinon, plain, plane, plena, pleon, plier, polar, poler, porin, prion, prole, prone, repin, and ripen — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in nonpareil produces 115 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lane, lean, leap, liar, line, lion, and loan. For points, the strongest plays are aper, larp, leap, lipa, lipe, lipo, lope, nape, neap, nipa, nope, opal, open, pail, pain, pair, pale, pali, pane, pare, peal, pean, pear, pein, peon, peri, pial, pian, pier, pile, pina, pine, pion, pirn, plan, plea, plie, pole, pone, pore, porn, prao, proa, rape, reap, repo, ripe, and rope — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling nonpareil turns up 62 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ape, are, ear, era, lap, and lie. For points, the strongest plays are alp, ape, apo, lap, lip, lop, nap, nip, opa, ope, pal, pan, par, pea, pen, per, pia, pie, pin, poi, pol, pro, rap, rep, and rip — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nonpareil. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, in, no, on, and or. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in nonpareil plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in nonpareil and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
nonpareil 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 four senses for nonpareil. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
nonpareil is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nonpareil unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is nonpareil, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from nonpareil 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 nonpareil produce 319 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 9 seven-letter words, 35 six-letter words, 71 five-letter words, 115 four-letter words, 62 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.