Hidden inside nailed sit alined, denial, and nailed, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 83 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alined, denial, and nailed tie for the highest Scrabble score from nailed at 7 points. The top 10 of 83 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in nailed: two come from rearranging its letters, and nailed itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with denial and nailed. For points, the strongest plays are alined, denial, and nailed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nailed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alien, ideal, and lined. For points, 7 words tie at 6 points, including ideal, lined and ailed.
Rearranging the letters in nailed produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deal, deli and dial. For points, 19 words tie at 5 points, including deal, deli and dial.
Unscrambling nailed turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, and and die. For points, 13 words tie at 4 points, including aid, and and die.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nailed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, id, and in. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including ad, id and da.
17 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in nailed plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in nailed 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.
nailed 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.
nailed is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nailed unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are alined, denial, and nailed, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from nailed 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 nailed produce 83 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.