Hidden inside nurture sit nurture and untruer, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 38 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
nurture and untruer tie for the highest Scrabble score from nurture at 7 points. The top 10 of 38 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in nurture: one comes from rearranging its letters, and nurture itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are nurture and untruer, 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 nurture turns up 3 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with return. For points, the strongest plays are return, turner, and untrue — 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 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nurture. If a familiar word is all you need, start with truer. For points, the strongest plays are rerun, truer, and tuner — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in nurture produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rent, true, tune, and turn. For points, the strongest plays are rent, ruer, rune, runt, tern, true, tune, turn, and turr — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling nurture turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with net, nut, run, and ten. For points, the strongest plays are ern, err, net, nut, ret, rue, run, rut, ten, tun, urn, and ute — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nurture. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are en, er, et, ne, nu, re, te, un, and ut, each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in nurture 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.
nurture 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 five senses for nurture. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
nurture is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nurture unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are nurture and untruer, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from nurture 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 nurture produce 38 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.