Hidden inside nonselective sit nonelectives and nonselective, twelve-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 692 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
nonelectives and nonselective tie for the highest Scrabble score from nonselective at 17 points. The top 10 of 692 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 twelve-letter words hiding in nonselective: one comes from rearranging its letters, and nonselective itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these twelve-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are nonelectives and nonselective, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eleven-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nonselective. No common everyday answer stands out among these eleven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are nonelective and venesection, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling nonselective turns up 18 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elections, novelties, selection, and violences. For points, the strongest plays are cleveites, coinvents, electives, evections, selective, and violences — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 37 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nonselective. If a familiar word is all you need, start with election, sentence, and violence. For points, the strongest plays are cleveite, coinvent, coinvest, connives, convenes, convents, elective, evection, evictees, and violence — 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 nonselective produces 72 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clients, elevens, evenest, evilest, intense, invents, and license. For points, the strongest plays are connive, convene, convent, costive, covines, evictee, evinces, novices, and vesicle — each 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 nonselective turns up 138 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with client, clones, closet, elects, eleven, events, and invent. For points, the strongest plays are civets, clevis, cloven, cloves, covens, covets, covine, covins, evicts, evince, novice, veloce, and voices — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 173 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nonselective. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, clone, close, coins, cones, elect, and elves. For points, the strongest plays are civet, clove, coven, coves, covet, covin, evict, vices, voces, and voice — each 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 nonselective produces 157 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lent, lets, lice, lies, line, lion, and list. For points, the strongest plays are cove and vice — each 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 nonselective turns up 73 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, eve, ice, its, let, lie, and lit. For points, the strongest plays are eve, lev, sev, vee, vet, vie, vin, vis, and voe — 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nonselective. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, no, on, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are el, en, es, et, in, is, it, li, lo, ne, no, oe, oi, on, os, si, so, te, ti, and to — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
nonselective 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 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
nonselective is one of two twelve-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nonselective unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are nonelectives and nonselective, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from nonselective 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 nonselective produce 692 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 twelve-letter words, 2 eleven-letter words, 18 nine-letter words, 37 eight-letter words, 72 seven-letter words, 138 six-letter words, 173 five-letter words, 157 four-letter words, 73 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.