nonpluses 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, 192 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
nonpluses is the highest-scoring word from nonpluses, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 192 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in nonpluses — and it is nonpluses itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nonpluses. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is nonuples, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in nonpluses produces 5 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 nonplus and nonuple, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling nonpluses turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lesson, louses, and unless. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including loupen, loupes and opuses.
There are 41 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nonpluses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loses, louse and noses. For points, 21 words tie at 7 points, including opens, poles and poses.
Rearranging the letters in nonpluses produces 67 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with less, lose and loss. For points, 30 words tie at 6 points, including nope, open and pens.
Unscrambling nonpluses turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nun, one and pen. For points, 14 words tie at 5 points, including pen, lop and ope.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nonpluses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, on and so. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, po, and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in nonpluses plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in nonpluses 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.
nonpluses 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 one sense for nonpluses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
nonpluses is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nonpluses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is nonpluses, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from nonpluses 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 nonpluses produce 192 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 41 five-letter words, 67 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.