cushy needs no unscrambling at all — the five-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 7 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cushy is the highest-scoring word from cushy, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 7 of 7 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one five-letter word uses the letters in cushy — and it is cushy itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cushy produces 2 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with such. For points, the strongest play is yuch — 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 cushy produces exactly one three-letter word: shy. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cushy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sh, uh, and us. For points, the strongest plays are 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.
Swap a single tile in cushy and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
cushy 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 cushy carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for cushy. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
cushy is the only five-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cushy unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is cushy, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from cushy 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 cushy produce 7 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 2 four-letter words, 1 three-letter word and 3 two-letter words.