Hidden inside cashiers sit cashiers and rachises, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 232 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cashiers and rachises tie for the highest Scrabble score from cashiers at 13 points. The top 10 of 232 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in cashiers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and cashiers 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 cashiers and rachises, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cashiers produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crashes. For points, 6 words tie at 12 points, including crashes, cahiers and cashier.
Unscrambling cashiers turns up 38 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cashes, chairs and chases. For points, 14 words tie at 11 points, including cashes, chairs and chases.
There are 56 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cashiers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ashes, cares and cases. For points, 11 words tie at 10 points, including chair, chase and chess.
Rearranging the letters in cashiers produces 69 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, care and cars. For points, 10 words tie at 9 points, including cash, each and rich.
Unscrambling cashiers turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are and ash. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, and ich — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cashiers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as and eh. For points, 6 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
6 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in cashiers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cashiers 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.
cashiers 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 cashiers carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record four senses for cashiers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
cashiers is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cashiers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cashiers and rachises, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cashiers 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 cashiers produce 232 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 38 six-letter words, 56 five-letter words, 69 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.