banishers needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 372 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
banishers is the highest-scoring word from banishers, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 372 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in banishers — and it is banishers itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in banishers. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are banisher, banishes, and banshies, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in banishers produces 18 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are banshie, bashers, bearish, and brashes, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling banishers turns up 55 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with brains, rabies, raises, rashes, rehabs, shares, and shines. For points, the strongest plays are banish, basher, bashes, bishes, rehabs, and sahibs — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 96 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in banishers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ashes, barns, bases, basis, beans, bears, and brain. For points, the strongest plays are brash, herbs, rehab, and sahib — each 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 banishers produces 107 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, bans, bare, barn, bars, base, and bass. For points, the strongest plays are bash, bish, and herb — 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 banishers turns up 68 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, ash, ass, bah, ban, and bar. 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 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in banishers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an, as, be, eh, ha, and he. 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in banishers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in banishers and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
banishers 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.
banishers is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing banishers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is banishers, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from banishers 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 banishers produce 372 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 18 seven-letter words, 55 six-letter words, 96 five-letter words, 107 four-letter words, 68 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.