Unscramble NOUNIEST and you have 223 words, NOUNIEST itself among them: it scores 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. The best shorter words score 7: 5 of them, TENSION, INTONES and NEUSTON included. The 8 letters split into 4 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from NOUNIEST split into 1 with 8 letters, 5 with 7, 30 with 6, 52 with 5, 60 with 4, 51 with 3 and 24 with 2.
Every one of the 30 6-letter words made with NOUNIEST letters scores 6. TENNIS, UNIONS and TONNES are everyday picks.
The 5-letter words from NOUNIEST come to 52, each scoring 5 points. NOTES, UNION and UNITS are the familiar ones.
All 60 of the 4-letter words you get when you unscramble NOUNIEST score 4 points. SITE, NOTE and NONE are the ones most people know.
Trade one tile of NOUNIEST for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 8-letter words: starting with NO · ending in ST · all 8-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with INTONES, NEUSTON, NONSUIT, TENSION and TUNNIES (7 points each).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
In Scrabble, yes: NOUNIEST is playable in Scrabble UK. It is not in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| NOUNIEST itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 223) | 175 | 223 | 158 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 48 of them: NOUNIEST, INTUSE, NOINTS, SOUTIE, STONEN, STONNE, TENSON, TONIES, UNNEST, UNTINS, USTION, INUST and 36 more. Words With Friends* skips 17 of them: OUTIES, SINNET, TENNOS, NONIS, NUTSO, OUTIE, TEINS, TENNO, NONI, TEIN, UNIS, EST and 5 more.
With one more tile, the letters of NOUNIEST spell the words below.