baksheesh needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 21 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 98 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
baksheesh is the highest-scoring word from baksheesh, worth 21 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 98 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in baksheesh — and it is baksheesh itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 21 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling baksheesh turns up 4 six-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: shakes, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in baksheesh. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ashes, bakes, bases, eases, sakes, seeks, and shake. For points, the strongest plays are hakes and shake — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in baksheesh produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asks, bake, base, bass, bees, ease, and sake. For points, the strongest play is hake — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling baksheesh turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ash, ask, ass, bah, bee, hah, and has. For points, the strongest plays are hah, heh, kab, and shh — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in baksheesh. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, be, eh, ha, he, and sh. For points, the strongest play is ka — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in baksheesh plus one additional letter.
baksheesh 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 one sense for baksheesh. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 21 points on a Scrabble board:
baksheesh is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing baksheesh unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is baksheesh, worth 21 points in Scrabble, and no other word from baksheesh 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 baksheesh produce 98 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.