Hidden inside pushing sit gunship and pushing, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 98 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gunship and pushing tie for the highest Scrabble score from pushing at 13 points. The top 10 of 98 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in pushing: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pushing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pushing. For points, the strongest plays are gunship and pushing — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pushing turns up 4 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with punish. For points, the strongest plays are punish and unship — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pushing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with suing and using. For points, the strongest play is unhip — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pushing produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guns, hips, hugs, hung, pigs, pins, and push. For points, the strongest play is pugh — 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 pushing turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gun, hip, his, hug, pig, pin, and sin. For points, the strongest plays are hip, hup, and phi — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pushing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hi, in, is, sh, uh, up, and us. For points, the strongest plays are hi, 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.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in pushing plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pushing and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
pushing 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 3-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 pushing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
pushing is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pushing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gunship and pushing, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pushing 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 pushing produce 98 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.