Hidden inside nylons sit nonyls and nylons, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 23 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
nonyls and nylons tie for the highest Scrabble score from nylons at 9 points. The top 10 of 23 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in nylons: one comes from rearranging its letters, and nylons itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are nonyls and nylons, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nylons. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are nonyl, nylon, sonly, and sonny, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in nylons and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
nylons 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 2-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 nylons. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
nylons is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nylons unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are nonyls and nylons, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from nylons 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 nylons produce 23 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 2 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.