178 words come out when you unscramble NONUPLES, starting with NONUPLES itself: 10 in Scrabble, 15 in Words With Friends. NONPLUS and NONUPLE are the best of the shorter words, at 9 points. The 8 letters split into 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
N12O1N12U12P34L12E1S1
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from NONUPLES split into 1 with 8 letters, 2 with 7, 13 with 6, 38 with 5, 60 with 4, 46 with 3 and 18 with 2.
Among 38 5-letter words from NONUPLES, the top score is 7, reached by 21. PULSE, OPENS and SLOPE are the familiar ones.
60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble NONUPLES; 33 of them share the top score of 6. OPEN, PLUS and NONE are everyday picks.
Keep every letter of NONUPLES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with NO · ending in ES · all 8-letter words
NONUPLES 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 NONUPLES, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| NONUPLES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 178) | 135 | 178 | 129 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
43 of the 178 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: PELONS, POULES, SOUPLE, ELOPS, NOUPS, OLPES, PLUES, POULE, PUSLE, SNOEP, SPULE, LEPS and 31 more. 6 of the 178 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: PLEONS, PLEON, POS, LUNS, PO and LUN.
These 3 words take every letter of NONUPLES plus a single extra one.