nurserymen needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 164 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
nurserymen is the highest-scoring word from nurserymen, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 164 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in nurserymen — and it is nurserymen itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in nurserymen produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with runners. For points, the strongest plays are murreys and unmerry — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling nurserymen turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with resume and runner. For points, the strongest play is murrey — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 41 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nurserymen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enemy, menus and merry. For points, the strongest plays are emery, enemy, merry, and murry — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in nurserymen produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eyes, menu and nuns. For points, the strongest play is sumy — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling nurserymen turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eye, men and nun. For points, the strongest play is yum — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nurserymen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, my, um, and us. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
nurserymen 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 nurserymen. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
nurserymen is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nurserymen unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is nurserymen, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from nurserymen 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 nurserymen produce 164 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 41 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.