banish needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 61 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
banish is the highest-scoring word from banish, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 61 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in banish — and it is banish itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in banish. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is sahib, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in banish produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bans. For points, the strongest plays are bash and bish — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling banish turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ash, bah, ban, has, his, nah, and sin. For points, the strongest play is bah — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in banish. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an, as, ha, hi, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ah, ha, hi, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in banish and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
banish is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for banish. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
banish is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing banish unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is banish, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from banish earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in banish produce 61 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 4 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.