Hidden inside nonseptate sit nonseptate and panettones, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 380 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
nonseptate and panettones tie for the highest Scrabble score from nonseptate at 12 points. The top 10 of 380 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in nonseptate: one comes from rearranging its letters, and nonseptate 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 nonseptate and panettones, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling nonseptate produces exactly one nine-letter word: panettone. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nonseptate. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pentanes, pentosan, postteen, and potteens, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in nonseptate produces 21 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with neatest. For points, 15 words tie at 9 points, including nepetas, nonpast and openest.
Unscrambling nonseptate turns up 48 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with estate. For points, 26 words tie at 8 points, including aptest, etapes and nepeta.
There are 92 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nonseptate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eaten, notes and opens. For points, 42 words tie at 7 points, including opens, pants and penes.
Rearranging the letters in nonseptate produces 121 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, apes and naps. For points, 53 words tie at 6 points, including apes, naps and nope.
Unscrambling nonseptate turns up 68 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ape and ate. For points, 25 words tie at 5 points, including ape, nap and pan.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nonseptate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
nonseptate 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.
nonseptate is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nonseptate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are nonseptate and panettones, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from nonseptate 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 nonseptate produce 380 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 1 nine-letter word, 6 eight-letter words, 21 seven-letter words, 48 six-letter words, 92 five-letter words, 121 four-letter words, 68 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.