Unscramble NOSTOS to get 41 words. NOSTOS itself is a real word: 6 points on a Scrabble board, 7 in Words With Friends. It has 1 anagram, each with the same 6 points: SNOOTS. 6 letters: 2 vowels and 4 consonants.
N12O1S1T1O1S1
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Words from NOSTOS by length: 2 with 6 letters, 5 with 5, 14 with 4, 13 with 3 and 7 with 2.
Keep every letter of NOSTOS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 6-letter words: starting with NO · ending in OS · all 6-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with SNOOTS (6 points).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Scrabble UK accepts NOSTOS, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| NOSTOS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 41) | 32 | 41 | 30 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
9 of the 41 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: NOSTOS, OONTS, ONST, OONS, OONT, OON, OOS, OO and ST. 2 of the 41 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: ONOS and ONO.
With one more tile, the letters of NOSTOS spell the words below.