bishops needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 74 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bishops is the highest-scoring word from bishops, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 74 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in bishops — and it is bishops itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling bishops produces exactly one six-letter word: bishop. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bishops. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ships and shops. For points, the strongest plays are ships, shops, and sophs — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in bishops produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boss, hips and hops. For points, 12 words tie at 9 points, including hips, hops and ship.
Unscrambling bishops turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hip, his, hop, and sip. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including hip, hop and hob.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bishops. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hi, ho and is. For points, the strongest plays are hi, ho, oh, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in bishops and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
bishops 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 three senses for bishops. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
bishops is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bishops unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is bishops, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from bishops 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 bishops produce 74 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 4 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.