nostrum needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 127 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
nostrum is the highest-scoring word from nostrum, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 127 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in nostrum — and it is nostrum itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nostrum. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mount, storm and tours. For points, 11 words tie at 7 points, including mount, storm and tumor.
Rearranging the letters in nostrum produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with most, must and nuts. For points, 20 words tie at 6 points, including most, must and rums.
Unscrambling nostrum turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nor, not and nut. For points, 16 words tie at 5 points, including rum, mon and mor.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nostrum. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, on and or. For points, the strongest plays are mo, mu, om, and um — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
5 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in nostrum plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in nostrum and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
nostrum 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 two senses for nostrum. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
nostrum is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nostrum unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is nostrum, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from nostrum 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 nostrum produce 127 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.