198 words come out when you unscramble NIGHTIES, starting with NIGHTIES itself: 12 in Scrabble, 13 in Words With Friends. It has 2 anagrams, each with the same 12 points: HEISTING and THINGIES. The best shorter words score 11: 7 of them, INSIGHT, NIGHTIE and HISTING included. 8 letters: 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Counting the words from NIGHTIES by length: 3 with 8 letters, 8 with 7, 20 with 6, 46 with 5, 60 with 4, 45 with 3 and 16 with 2.
Of the 46 5-letter words you get when you unscramble NIGHTIES, 12 score 9 points, the group's best. NIGHT, THING and EIGHT are the ones most people know.
60 4-letter words made with NIGHTIES letters; 5 of them share the top score of 8. THEN, SIGN and SENT are everyday picks.
GHI tops the 3-letter words you get when you unscramble NIGHTIES at 7 points; next come EHS and ETH on 6. GET, ITS and SET will look familiar.
Trade one tile of NIGHTIES for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 8-letter words: starting with NI · ending in ES · all 8-letter words
What NIGHTIES means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept NIGHTIES, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| NIGHTIES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 198) | 161 | 198 | 145 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 37 of them: SHITING, SITHING, HETING, EHING, GHEST, HINGS, HISTIE, SITHEN, THIGS, HING, SIETH, SITHE and 25 more. Words With Friends* skips 16 of them: THINGIES, THINGIE, SHITE, SHEN, STINGE, GITES, GITE, NEGS, TEINS, GIS, NEG, SIG and 4 more.
Each word below uses all the letters of NIGHTIES and one more.