Hidden inside nostalgia sit analogist and nostalgia, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 416 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
analogist and nostalgia tie for the highest Scrabble score from nostalgia at 10 points. The top 10 of 416 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in nostalgia: one comes from rearranging its letters, and nostalgia itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are analogist and nostalgia, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nostalgia. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are antilogs, otalgias, and solating, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in nostalgia produces 24 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with against and lasting. For points, the strongest plays are against, agnails, agnosia, agonist, analogs, antilog, antisag, galiots, gitanos, laogais, lasting, latigos, logania, otalgia, salting, slating, staling, and tiglons — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling nostalgia turns up 61 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with giants, losing, signal, and tangos. For points, the strongest plays are agitas, agnail, agonal, algins, aligns, analog, anglos, asiago, gainst, galiot, gaslit, giants, gitano, glints, gloats, ingots, lagans, laogai, lasing, latigo, liangs, ligans, lingas, lingos, logans, logins, losing, satang, sating, signal, slogan, soling, stalag, stingo, taigas, tangas, tangos, tasing, tiglon, tigons, toling, and tongas — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 108 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nostalgia. If a familiar word is all you need, start with again, along, gains, giant, goals, goats, and lions. For points, the strongest plays are again, agios, agist, agita, agons, alang, algas, algin, align, along, angas, anglo, angst, gains, gaits, galas, gaols, giant, gilts, glans, glias, glint, gloat, glost, gnats, goals, goats, gonia, ingot, lagan, liang, ligan, linga, lingo, lings, logan, logia, login, longs, nagas, saiga, sanga, sigla, signa, slang, sling, staig, stang, sting, taiga, tanga, tango, tangs, tigon, tings, togas, tonga, and tongs — 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 nostalgia produces 127 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, ants, last, lion, list, loan, and logs. For points, the strongest plays are agas, agin, agio, agon, alga, anga, lags, lang, ling, logs, long, naga, nags, nogs, saga, sago, sang, sign, sing, slag, slog, snag, snog, song, stag, gain, gait, gala, gals, gaol, gast, gats, gilt, gins, gist, gits, glia, gnat, goal, goas, goat, tags, tang, ting, toga, togs, and tong — 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 nostalgia turns up 65 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, ant, gal, gas, got, its, and lit. For points, the strongest plays are aga, ago, ags, gal, gan, gas, gat, gin, gis, git, goa, gos, got, lag, log, nag, nog, sag, sig, tag, and tog — 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 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nostalgia. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, go, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag, gi, and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in nostalgia plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in nostalgia and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
nostalgia 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 3-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 nostalgia. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
nostalgia is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nostalgia unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are analogist and nostalgia, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from nostalgia 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 nostalgia produce 416 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 24 seven-letter words, 61 six-letter words, 108 five-letter words, 127 four-letter words, 65 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.