Unscramble NOWTIEST and you have 218 words, NOWTIEST itself among them: it scores 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. NOWTIEST has 2 anagrams here, TOWNIEST and TOWNSITE, scoring 11 like NOWTIEST itself. Among the shorter answers, 5 reach 10 points, TOWNIES, ENTWIST and TOWIEST among them. The 8 letters split into 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from NOWTIEST by length: 3 with 8 letters, 8 with 7, 16 with 6, 52 with 5, 60 with 4, 56 with 3 and 23 with 2.
52 5-letter words you get when you unscramble NOWTIEST; 25 of them share the top score of 8. NOTES, STONE and NOISE are everyday picks.
Among 60 4-letter words from NOWTIEST, the top score is 7, reached by 40. NEWS, WEST and NOTE are the familiar ones.
Of the 56 3-letter words in NOWTIEST, 20 score 6 points, the group's best. NOT, NEW and ONE are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of NOWTIEST but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with NO · ending in ST · all 8-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with TOWNSITE (11 points).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Scrabble UK accepts NOWTIEST, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| NOWTIEST itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 218) | 176 | 218 | 163 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
42 of the 218 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: NOWTIEST, TOWNIEST, TOWIEST, TWONIES, TEWITS, TWITES, TWONIE, SEWIN, SOWNE, STOWN, TEWIT, TOWSE and 30 more. 13 of the 218 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: TOWNSITE, OWIES, OWIE, OWTS, OWT, STOTIN, EW, STENT, TEINS, EST, TES, OI and 1 more.
These 2 words take every letter of NOWTIEST plus a single extra one.