cashew needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 57 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cashew is the highest-scoring word from cashew, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 57 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in cashew — and it is cashew itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cashew. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chase and chews. For points, the strongest plays are chaws, chews, and schwa — 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 cashew produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with case, cash, chew, each, and wash. For points, the strongest plays are chaw and chew — 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 cashew turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ash, has, saw, sea, sew, she, and was. For points, the strongest plays are haw, hew, and wha — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cashew. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, aw, eh, ew, ha, and he. For points, the strongest plays are ah, aw, eh, ew, ha, he, sh, and we — 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 cashew and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
cashew 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in cashew carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for cashew. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
cashew is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cashew unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is cashew, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from cashew 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 cashew produce 57 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 6 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.