Hidden inside perishes sit perishes and pheresis, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 160 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
perishes and pheresis tie for the highest Scrabble score from perishes at 13 points. The top 10 of 160 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in perishes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and perishes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are perishes and pheresis, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in perishes produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pishers, reships, and spheres, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling perishes turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with herpes and series. For points, the strongest plays are herpes, perish, pisher, pishes, reship, and sphere — 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 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in perishes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hires, press, rises, sheep, shier, ships, and spies. For points, the strongest plays are sheep and ships — each 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 perishes produces 46 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with here, hers, hips, hire, pees, pies, and reps. For points, the strongest plays are heps, hips, pehs, phis, pish, and ship — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling perishes turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, hip, his, pee, per, pie, and rep. For points, the strongest plays are hep, hip, peh, 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in perishes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, is, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, hi, 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 perishes 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.
perishes 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 perishes carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for perishes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
perishes is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing perishes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are perishes and pheresis, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from perishes 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 perishes produce 160 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 46 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.