Hidden inside nursemaid sit muraenids and nursemaid, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 640 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
muraenids and nursemaid tie for the highest Scrabble score from nursemaid at 12 points. The top 10 of 640 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in nursemaid: one comes from rearranging its letters, and nursemaid itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are muraenids and nursemaid, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nursemaid. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are duramens, maunders, maundies, muraenid, and surnamed, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in nursemaid produces 42 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admires, maidens, manures, remains, reminds, and seminar. For points, the strongest plays are admires, damners, duramen, inarmed, maidens, manured, maunder, medians, medinas, medusan, minders, misread, radiums, remands, reminds, remudas, sedarim, sidearm, sideman, unaimed, unarmed, and unrimed — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling nursemaid turns up 109 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admire, amused, armies, diners, drains, dreams, and maiden. For points, the strongest plays are admins, admire, aidmen, amends, amides, amused, audism, daimen, damner, demurs, denims, dermas, dermis, desman, dimers, dirams, disarm, dreams, dunams, madres, maiden, maunds, median, medias, medina, medius, medusa, menads, minder, mudras, murids, nudism, radium, remand, remind, remuda, and unmade — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 180 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nursemaid. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aimed, aired, amuse, armed, aside, damns, and dares. For points, the strongest plays are admen, admin, aimed, amend, amide, amids, armed, dames, damns, deism, demur, denim, derma, derms, dimer, dimes, diram, disme, drams, dream, drums, dumas, dunam, madre, maids, maned, mauds, maund, meads, media, menad, mends, minds, mined, mired, mudra, mured, murid, mused, named, rimed, and sedum — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in nursemaid produces 174 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, aims, airs, amen, anus, arms, and made. For points, the strongest plays are amid, made, mads, maid, maud, mead, meds, mend, mids, mind, muds, dame, damn, dams, derm, dime, dims, dram, drum, duma, and idem — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling nursemaid turns up 95 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, aim, air, and, are, and arm. For points, the strongest plays are dam, dim, dum, mad, med, mid, and mud — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 29 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nursemaid. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, an, as, id, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, mi, mu, and um — 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 nursemaid plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in nursemaid 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.
nursemaid 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 one sense for nursemaid. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
nursemaid is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nursemaid unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are muraenids and nursemaid, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from nursemaid 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 nursemaid produce 640 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 42 seven-letter words, 109 six-letter words, 180 five-letter words, 174 four-letter words, 95 three-letter words and 29 two-letter words.