70 words come out when you unscramble NICHES, starting with NICHES itself: 11 in Scrabble, 12 in Words With Friends. It has 3 anagrams, each with the same 11 points: CHINES, CHINSE and INCHES. The 6 letters split into 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 NICHES by length: 4 with 6 letters, 7 with 5, 24 with 4, 24 with 3 and 11 with 2.
These 6 words have the length of NICHES, with one letter different:
More 6-letter words: starting with NI · ending in ES · all 6-letter words
What NICHES means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept NICHES, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| NICHES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 70) | 54 | 70 | 52 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
16 of the 70 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ICHES, SECH, SICH, CHE, ECH, CH, EISH, NESH, NISH, CENS, EHS, ISH and 4 more. 2 of the 70 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: CHINSE and SHEN.
With one more tile, the letters of NICHES spell the words below.