Hidden inside nephrite sit nephrite and trephine, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 137 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
nephrite and trephine tie for the highest Scrabble score from nephrite at 13 points. The top 10 of 137 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in nephrite: one comes from rearranging its letters, and nephrite 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 nephrite and trephine, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in nephrite produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with neither. For points, the strongest play is prithee — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling nephrite turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with either and entire. For points, the strongest play is threep — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nephrite. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, print, their, there, thine, and three. For points, the strongest play is thrip — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in nephrite produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with here, hint, hire, rent, teen, thee, and then. For points, the strongest play is pith — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling nephrite turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hen, her, hip, hit, net, pee, and pen. For points, the strongest plays are hep, hip, peh, phi, and pht — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nephrite. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, and hi — each worth 5 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 nephrite 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.
nephrite 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 1-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 nephrite. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
nephrite is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nephrite unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are nephrite and trephine, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from nephrite 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 nephrite produce 137 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.