bushings 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, 110 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bushings is the highest-scoring word from bushings, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 110 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in bushings — and it is bushings itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in bushings produces 3 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 bushing, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bushings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with signs, sings and suing. For points, the strongest plays are nighs, sighs, and sughs — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in bushings produces 44 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bugs, buns and bush. For points, the strongest plays are bish, bush, and hubs — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling bushings turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with big, bug and bun. 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 bushings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hi, in and is. For points, the strongest plays are hi, sh, and uh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in bushings 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.
bushings 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for bushings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
bushings is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bushings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is bushings, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from bushings 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 bushings produce 110 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 44 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.