115 words come out when you unscramble NACRES, starting with NACRES itself: 8 in Scrabble, 10 in Words With Friends. It has 5 anagrams, each with the same 8 points: CANERS, CASERN, CRANES, CRENAS and RANCES. Among the shorter answers, 21 reach 7 points, ACRES, RACES and CRANE among them. 6 letters: 2 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from NACRES by length: 6 with 6 letters, 27 with 5, 41 with 4, 30 with 3 and 11 with 2.
Among 41 4-letter words you get when you unscramble NACRES, the top score is 6, reached by 21. CASE, CARE and CARS are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of NACRES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 6-letter words: starting with NA · ending in ES · all 6-letter words
NACRES first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept NACRES, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| NACRES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 115) | 90 | 115 | 86 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: CRENAS, ACERS, CRANS, CRENA, SCRAE, ACER, AESC, ANCE, CEAS, CENS, CRAN, REANS and 13 more, 25 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: SCRAN, NAES, NARE and SAN, 4 in all.
These 12 words take every letter of NACRES plus a single extra one.