Hidden inside nuttings sit nuttings and stunting, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 85 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
nuttings and stunting tie for the highest Scrabble score from nuttings at 9 points. The top 10 of 85 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in nuttings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and nuttings 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 nuttings and stunting, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in nuttings produces 2 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 nutting and tunings, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling nuttings produces exactly one six-letter word: tuning. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nuttings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sting, stung and stunt. For points, 6 words tie at 6 points, including sting, stung and suing.
Rearranging the letters in nuttings produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guns, guts and nuns. For points, 15 words tie at 5 points, including guns, guts and sign.
Unscrambling nuttings turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gun, gut and its. For points, 9 words tie at 4 points, including gun, gut and gin.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nuttings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, and us. For points, the strongest play is gi — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in nuttings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in nuttings 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.
nuttings 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.
nuttings is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nuttings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are nuttings and stunting, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from nuttings 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 nuttings produce 85 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 1 six-letter word, 11 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.