Unscramble NURTURES and you have 128 words, NURTURES itself among them: it scores 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Among the shorter answers, 5 reach 7 points, RETURNS, NURTURE and TURNERS among them. The 8 letters split into 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from NURTURES split into 1 with 8 letters, 5 with 7, 12 with 6, 23 with 5, 43 with 4, 31 with 3 and 13 with 2.
All 43 of the 4-letter words from NURTURES score 4 points. USER, SURE and TRUE are the ones most people know.
Trade one tile of NURTURES for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 8-letter words: starting with NU · ending in ES · all 8-letter words
NURTURES first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes. NURTURES 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| NURTURES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 128) | 104 | 128 | 96 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: UNSURER, RUSTRE, NURRS, RURUS, STURE, SUENT, URENT, USURE, ENTS, NURR, NURS, RENS and 12 more, 24 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: TURRS, TRES, TURR, UTES, EST, TES, UTE and TE, 8 in all.
Each word below uses all the letters of NURTURES and one more.