Hidden inside brushed sit brushed and redbush, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 108 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble DESHRUB, BUSHDER or HUSBRED and you get the same 7 letters as BRUSHED: so the words from BRUSHED listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
brushed and redbush tie for the highest Scrabble score from brushed at 13 points. The top 10 of 108 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in brushed: one comes from rearranging its letters, and brushed itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with brushed. For points, the strongest plays are brushed and redbush — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in brushed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with brush and shred. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including brush, bruhs and buhrs.
Rearranging the letters in brushed produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beds, bred and buds. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including bush, bruh and buhr.
Unscrambling brushed turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bed, bud and bus. For points, the strongest play is hub — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in brushed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, eh and he. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, sh, and uh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in brushed plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in brushed 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.
brushed 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 brushed. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
brushed is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing brushed unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are brushed and redbush, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from brushed 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 brushed produce 108 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.