Hidden inside cherishes sit cherishes and cheshires, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 132 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cherishes and cheshires tie for the highest Scrabble score from cherishes at 17 points. The top 10 of 132 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in cherishes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and cherishes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cherishes. For points, the strongest plays are cherishes and cheshires — each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling cherishes produces exactly one eight-letter word: cheshire. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cherishes produces 4 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: cherish, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling cherishes turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheers, crises, recess, and series. For points, the strongest play is sheesh — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cherishes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheer, chess, cries, hires, rices, rises, and shier. For points, the strongest plays are cheer, chess, and eches — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in cherishes produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with here, hers, hire, ices, rice, rich, and rise. For points, the strongest play is hehs — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling cherishes turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with heh, her, his, ice, see, she, and shh. For points, the strongest plays are heh and shh — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cherishes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, is, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, hi, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in cherishes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cherishes and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
cherishes 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 cherishes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
cherishes is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cherishes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cherishes and cheshires, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cherishes 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 cherishes produce 132 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.