Hidden inside nodus sit nodus, sound, udons and 1 other, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 39 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
nodus, sound, udons and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from nodus at 6 points. The top 10 of 39 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 five-letter words hiding in nodus: three come from rearranging its letters, and nodus itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sound. For points, the strongest plays are nodus, sound, udons, and undos — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in nodus produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with undo. For points, the strongest plays are dons, duns, duos, nods, ouds, udon, udos, and undo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling nodus turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with son and sun. For points, the strongest plays are don, dos, dun, duo, nod, ods, oud, sod, and udo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nodus. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, no, on, so, and us. For points, the strongest plays are do and od — each worth 3 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 nodus and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
nodus 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.
nodus is one of four five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nodus unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are nodus, sound, udons, and undos, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from nodus 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 nodus produce 39 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.