nourish needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 95 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble IUNSHOR, SHINURO or HORNUSI and you get the same 7 letters as NOURISH: so the words from NOURISH listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
nourish is the highest-scoring word from nourish, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 95 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in nourish — and it is nourish itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling nourish turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are houris, inrush, onrush, and rhinos, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nourish. If a familiar word is all you need, start with horns, hours, irons, and ruins. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including horns, hours and houri.
Rearranging the letters in nourish produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with horn, hour and iron. For points, 14 words tie at 7 points, including horn, hour and rush.
Unscrambling nourish turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with his, nor and our. For points, 10 words tie at 6 points, including his, hin and hon.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nourish. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hi, ho and in. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including hi, ho and oh.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in nourish plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in nourish 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.
nourish 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 two senses for nourish. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
nourish is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nourish unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is nourish, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from nourish 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 nourish produce 95 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.