Hidden inside englishes sit englishes and hingeless, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 195 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
englishes and hingeless tie for the highest Scrabble score from englishes at 13 points. The top 10 of 195 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in englishes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and englishes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are englishes and hingeless, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in englishes. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are heelings and shingles, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in englishes produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with english, singles, and sleighs. For points, the strongest plays are english, heeling, shingle, and sleighs — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling englishes turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with seeing, shines, single, and sleigh. For points, the strongest plays are henges, hinges, neighs, and sleigh — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 42 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in englishes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genes, heels, lines, sense, shine, signs, and sings. For points, the strongest plays are ghees, henge, hinge, neigh, nighs, and sighs — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in englishes produces 59 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, gene, heel, hens, legs, less, and lies. For points, the strongest plays are ghee, ghis, nigh, and sigh — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling englishes turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, hen, his, leg, lie, see, and she. For points, the strongest play is ghi — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in englishes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, in, 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 englishes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in englishes 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.
englishes 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 six senses for englishes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
englishes is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing englishes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are englishes and hingeless, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from englishes 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 englishes produce 195 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 42 five-letter words, 59 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.