What NESTS Means
NESTS is a form of NEST, which means:
- noun: a structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young
- noun: a kind of gun emplacement“a machine-gun nest”
- verb: inhabit a nest, usually after building“birds are nesting outside my window every Spring”
- verb: fit together or fit inside“nested bowls”
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
NESTS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 5 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as N1 E1 S1 T1 S1.
Anagrams of NESTS (2)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In NESTS
23 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.
4 letter words (9)
3 letter words (8)
2 letter words (6)
Longer Words Containing NESTS
NESTS appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.