Hidden inside nutmegs sit gnetums and nutmegs, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 121 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gnetums and nutmegs tie for the highest Scrabble score from nutmegs at 10 points. The top 10 of 121 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in nutmegs: one comes from rearranging its letters, and nutmegs 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 gnetums and nutmegs, 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 nutmegs turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gnetum and nutmeg, 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 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nutmegs. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guest, menus, stung, and tunes. For points, the strongest plays are geums and mungs — 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 nutmegs produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gets, gums, guns, guts, menu, mugs, and must. For points, the strongest plays are gems, geum, gums, megs, mugs, mung, and smug — 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 nutmegs turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with get, gum, gun, gut, men, met, and mug. For points, the strongest plays are gem, gum, meg, and mug — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nutmegs. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, um, and us. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, 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.
Swap a single tile in nutmegs 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.
nutmegs 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for nutmegs. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
nutmegs is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nutmegs unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gnetums and nutmegs, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from nutmegs 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 nutmegs produce 121 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.