Hidden inside dishes sit deshis, dishes, and hissed, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 50 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deshis, dishes, and hissed tie for the highest Scrabble score from dishes at 10 points. The top 10 of 50 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in dishes: two come from rearranging its letters, and dishes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dishes. For points, the strongest plays are deshis, dishes, and hissed — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dishes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hides and sides. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including hides, deshi and sheds.
Rearranging the letters in dishes produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, dish, hide, and side. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including dish, hide and edhs.
Unscrambling dishes turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, hid and his. For points, the strongest plays are edh and hid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dishes. 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.
2 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in dishes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in dishes and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
dishes 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 eight senses for dishes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
dishes is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dishes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are deshis, dishes, and hissed, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dishes 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 dishes produce 50 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.