Hidden inside garnishes sit garnishes and shearings, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 424 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
garnishes and shearings tie for the highest Scrabble score from garnishes at 13 points. The top 10 of 424 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in garnishes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and garnishes 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 garnishes and shearings, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in garnishes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hearings. For points, the strongest plays are hearings, hearsing, and shearing — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in garnishes produces 38 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erasing, hearing, sharing, and singers. For points, 13 words tie at 11 points, including hearing, sharing and garnish.
Unscrambling garnishes turns up 74 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angers, assign and easing. For points, 18 words tie at 10 points, including ashing, garish and gasher.
There are 98 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in garnishes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anger, ashes and earns. For points, 11 words tie at 9 points, including hangs, ahing and gerah.
Rearranging the letters in garnishes produces 113 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs and argh. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including argh, hang and gash.
Unscrambling garnishes turns up 71 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air and are. For points, the strongest plays are ghi and hag — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in garnishes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an and as. For points, 6 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
9 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in garnishes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in garnishes 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.
garnishes 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 four senses for garnishes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
garnishes is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing garnishes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are garnishes and shearings, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from garnishes 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 garnishes produce 424 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 38 seven-letter words, 74 six-letter words, 98 five-letter words, 113 four-letter words, 71 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.