Hidden inside nuclides sit includes, nuclides, and unsliced, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 204 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
includes, nuclides, and unsliced tie for the highest Scrabble score from nuclides at 11 points. The top 10 of 204 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in nuclides: two come from rearranging its letters, and nuclides itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with includes. For points, the strongest plays are includes, nuclides, and unsliced — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in nuclides produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with include. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including include, incudes and incused.
Unscrambling nuclides turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sliced and uncles. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including sliced, dulces and dunces.
There are 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nuclides. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clues, delis and dices. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including dices, cedis and clued.
Rearranging the letters in nuclides produces 71 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clue, cues and deli. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including dice, cedi and cuds.
Unscrambling nuclides turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, die and due. For points, the strongest play is cud — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nuclides. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, is, and us. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
5 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in nuclides plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in nuclides 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.
nuclides 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.
nuclides is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nuclides unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are includes, nuclides, and unsliced, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from nuclides 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 nuclides produce 204 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 71 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.