Hidden inside banishes sit banishes and banshies, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 165 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
banishes and banshies tie for the highest Scrabble score from banishes at 13 points. The top 10 of 165 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in banishes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and banishes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are 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 banishes 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 banshie, 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 banishes turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with shines. For points, the strongest plays are banish, bashes, bishes, 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 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in banishes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ashes, bases, basis, beans, and shine. 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 banishes produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bans, base, bass, bean, hens, sane, and seas. 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 banishes turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ash, ass, bah, ban, has, hen, and his. 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in banishes. 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.
Swap a single tile in banishes 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.
banishes 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 banishes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
banishes is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing banishes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are banishes and banshies, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from banishes 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 banishes produce 165 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.