Hidden inside nutating sit attuning, nutating, and taunting, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 79 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
attuning, nutating, and taunting tie for the highest Scrabble score from nutating at 9 points. The top 10 of 79 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in nutating: two come from rearranging its letters, and nutating itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are attuning, nutating, and taunting, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in nutating produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are antigun, nutting, and tauting, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling nutating turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tuning. For points, the strongest plays are anting, atting, guanin, and tuning — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nutating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with giant. For points, the strongest plays are gaunt, giant, and gutta — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in nutating produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunt, gain, tuna, and unit. For points, the strongest plays are agin, gain, gait, gaun, gnat, guan, tang, ting, and tung — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling nutating turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, gun, gut, nag, nun, nut, and tag. For points, the strongest plays are gan, gat, gin, git, gnu, gun, gut, nag, nug, tag, and tug — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nutating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 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 nutating 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.
nutating 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.
nutating is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nutating unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are attuning, nutating, and taunting, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from nutating 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 nutating produce 79 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.