cherish needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 61 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cherish is the highest-scoring word from cherish, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 61 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in cherish — and it is cherish itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cherish produces exactly one six-letter word: riches. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cherish. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cries, hires, rices, and shier. For points, the strongest plays are heirs, hires, shier, and shire — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cherish produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hers, hire and ices. For points, the strongest play is hehs — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cherish turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with heh, her and his. For points, the strongest plays are heh and shh — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cherish. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he and hi. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, hi, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in cherish plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cherish 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.
cherish 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 one sense for cherish. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
cherish is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cherish unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is cherish, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from cherish 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 cherish produce 61 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 7 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.