Unscramble NUTWOODS and you have 170 words, NUTWOODS itself among them: it scores 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, NUTWOOD leads with 11 points. 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.
Counting the words from NUTWOODS by length: 1 with 8 letters, 1 with 7, 9 with 6, 34 with 5, 60 with 4, 49 with 3 and 16 with 2.
There is a single one of the 7-letter words made with NUTWOODS letters: NUTWOOD, 11 points.
5 of 34 5-letter words from NUTWOODS tie at 9 points; none scores more. SOUND, WOODS and TOWNS will look familiar.
Of the 60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble NUTWOODS, 5 score 8 points, the group's best. DOWN, TOWN and SOON are the ones most people know.
Among the 3-letter words in NUTWOODS, DOW and WUD tie for first at 7 points. NOT, OUT and NOW are everyday picks.
Keep every letter of NUTWOODS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with NU · ending in DS · all 8-letter words
What NUTWOODS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept NUTWOODS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| NUTWOODS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 170) | 131 | 170 | 121 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 39 of them: STOWND, DOWTS, OUTWON, SOWND, UNSTOW, DOWT, STOWN, WOONS, WUDS, WOON, WOOT, STOND and 27 more. Words With Friends* skips 10 of them: OWTS, DOUTS, OWT, UDONS, UNDOS, DOUT, NUTSO, UDON, ONOS and ONO.
This word takes every letter of NUTWOODS plus a single extra one.