Hidden inside nimrod sit dormin and nimrod, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 48 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dormin and nimrod tie for the highest Scrabble score from nimrod at 9 points. The top 10 of 48 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in nimrod: one comes from rearranging its letters, and nimrod 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 dormin and nimrod, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling nimrod produces exactly one five-letter word: minor. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in nimrod produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dorm, iron, and mind. For points, the strongest plays are dorm, mind, and modi — 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 nimrod turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nor, rid, and rod. For points, the strongest plays are dim, dom, mid, and mod — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nimrod. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, in, no, on, and or. For points, the strongest plays are mi, mo, and om — 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 nimrod 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.
nimrod 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 nimrod. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
nimrod is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nimrod unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dormin and nimrod, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from nimrod 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 nimrod produce 48 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 1 five-letter word, 13 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.