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NESTED

6 letters, 7 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What NESTED Means

NESTED is a form of NEST, which means:

  1. noun: a structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young
  2. noun: a kind of gun emplacement“a machine-gun nest”
  3. verb: inhabit a nest, usually after building“birds are nesting outside my window every Spring”
  4. verb: fit together or fit inside“nested bowls”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

NESTED is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 7 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as N1 E1 S1 T1 E1 D2.

Anagrams of NESTED (5)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In NESTED

79 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.

5 letter words (20)

4 letter words (31)

3 letter words (19)

2 letter words (9)

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