cushions needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 113 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cushions is the highest-scoring word from cushions, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 113 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in cushions — and it is cushions itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cushions produces 2 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cousins and cushion. For points, the strongest play is cushion — 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 cushions turns up 4 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cousin. For points, the strongest play is chinos — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cushions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chins, coins, and sushi. For points, the strongest plays are chino, chins, chons, cuish, and hocus — 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 cushions produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chin, coin, cons, inch, ouch, sins, and sons. For points, the strongest plays are chin, chis, chon, cosh, huic, ichs, inch, ouch, and such — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling cushions turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, his, sin, son, and sun. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, ich, and och — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cushions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hi, ho, in, is, no, oh, and on. For points, the strongest plays are hi, ho, oh, sh, and uh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in cushions plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cushions 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.
cushions 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for cushions. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
cushions is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cushions unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is cushions, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from cushions 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 cushions produce 113 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.