banished needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 240 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
banished is the highest-scoring word from banished, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 240 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in banished — and it is banished itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in banished produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is behinds, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling banished turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with behind and shined. For points, the strongest plays are bashed and behind — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 44 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in banished. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aside, bands, based, beans, bends, binds, and dines. For points, the strongest play 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 banished produces 89 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, bade, band, bans, base, bean, and beds. 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 banished turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, and, ash, bad, bah, and ban. 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 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in banished. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah, an, as, be, eh, and ha. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, 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 banished and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
banished 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.
banished is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing banished unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is banished, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from banished 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 banished produce 240 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 44 five-letter words, 89 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.