Hidden inside finished sit fiendish and finished, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 117 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fiendish and finished tie for the highest Scrabble score from finished at 15 points. The top 10 of 117 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in finished: one comes from rearranging its letters, and finished itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with finished. For points, the strongest plays are fiendish and finished — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling finished turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with finish, fished, inside, and shined. For points, the strongest play is fished — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in finished. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dines, finds, hides, and shine. For points, the strongest plays are defis, deshi, fends, fiend, finds, fined, hides, hinds, shend, shied, and sidhe — 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 finished produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, dine, dish, ends, find, fine, and fish. 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 finished turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end, fed, hen, hid, his, and ids. 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 finished. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, id, if, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ef, eh, fe, he, hi, if, 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.
Swap a single tile in finished and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
finished 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in finished carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record five senses for finished. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
finished is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing finished unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are fiendish and finished, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from finished 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 finished produce 117 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.