Hidden inside furbishes sit bushfires and furbishes, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 221 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bushfires and furbishes tie for the highest Scrabble score from furbishes at 17 points. The top 10 of 221 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in furbishes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and furbishes 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 bushfires and furbishes, each worth 17 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 furbishes. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is bushfire, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in furbishes produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with brushes. For points, the strongest play is furbish — 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 furbishes turns up 34 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with buries, bushes, busier, fishes, and rushes. For points, the strongest plays are fisher, fishes, and sherif — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in furbishes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with brief, brush, buses, fires, fresh, fries, and hires. For points, the strongest play is fresh — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in furbishes produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bush, fire, fish, furs, hers, hire, and ribs. For points, the strongest plays are fehs and fish — each 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 furbishes turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bus, fur, her, his, rib, rub, and she. For points, the strongest play is feh — worth 9 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 furbishes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, eh, he, hi, if, is, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are ef, eh, fe, he, hi, if, 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.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in furbishes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in furbishes 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.
furbishes 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 furbishes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
furbishes is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing furbishes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bushfires and furbishes, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from furbishes 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 furbishes produce 221 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 34 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.