Unscramble NURSINGS and you have 110 words, NURSINGS itself among them: it scores 9 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, NURSING and URNINGS lead with 8 points. 8 letters: 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
N12U12R1S1I1N12G23S1
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Words from NURSINGS by length: 1 with 8 letters, 2 with 7, 8 with 6, 21 with 5, 36 with 4, 32 with 3 and 10 with 2.
Of the 21 5-letter words you get when you unscramble NURSINGS, 13 score 6 points, the group's best. USING, SIGNS and RINGS are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of NURSINGS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with NU · ending in GS · all 8-letter words
The meaning of NURSINGS, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes. NURSINGS is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| NURSINGS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 110) | 81 | 110 | 69 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: URNINGS, RUINGS, SUINGS, SURING, URNING, GURNS, SNIGS, GINN, GRIS, GURN, GURS, INGS and 17 more, 29 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: SUSING, INRUNS, INRUN, NUGS, SIGS, GIS, NUG, SIG, UNIS, GI, SUS and UNI, 12 in all.
These 4 words take every letter of NURSINGS plus a single extra one.