Unscramble NOCTURNS to get 166 words. NOCTURNS itself is a real word: 10 points on a Scrabble board, 14 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, NOCTURN leads with 9 points. 8 letters: 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from NOCTURNS by length: 1 with 8 letters, 2 with 7, 9 with 6, 41 with 5, 60 with 4, 40 with 3 and 13 with 2.
22 of 41 5-letter words from NOCTURNS tie at 7 points; none scores more. COURT, COUNT and TOURS will look familiar.
Of the 60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble NOCTURNS, 23 score 6 points, the group's best. COST, SORT and TURN are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of NOCTURNS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with NO · ending in NS · all 8-letter words
The meaning of NOCTURNS, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept NOCTURNS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| NOCTURNS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 166) | 123 | 166 | 118 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
41 of the 166 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: CROUTS, SCRUNT, SCRUTO, TRONCS, COURS, CRONS, CROST, CROUT, ONCUS, SOUCT, TRONC, COUR and 29 more. 7 of the 166 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: TURNONS, CORS, TURNON, CRU, NUTSO, SOC and TROU. 2 of the 166 answers are missing from Scrabble US: CUNTS and CUNT.
With one more tile, the letters of NOCTURNS spell the words below.