Hidden inside polished sit depolish and polished, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 296 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
depolish and polished tie for the highest Scrabble score from polished at 14 points. The top 10 of 296 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in polished: one comes from rearranging its letters, and polished itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with polished. For points, the strongest plays are depolish and polished — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in polished produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with spoiled. For points, the strongest plays are despoil, diploes, dipoles, and spoiled — 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 polished turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with polish. For points, the strongest plays are ephods and pished — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 68 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in polished. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis, helps, hides, holds, holes, hoped, and hopes. For points, the strongest plays are ephod and hoped — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in polished produces 108 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lids, lied, lies, lips, lose, oils, and pies. For points, the strongest plays are pehs, pheo, phis, phos, pish, posh, ship, shop, soph, help, heps, hips, holp, hope, and hops — 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 polished turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dip, hid, hip, his, hop, and ids. For points, the strongest plays are hep, hip, hop, peh, phi, pho, and poh — 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 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in polished. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, eh, he, hi, ho, id, and is. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, hi, ho, oh, 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 polished 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.
polished 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 polished. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
polished is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing polished unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are depolish and polished, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from polished 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 polished produce 296 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, 68 five-letter words, 108 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.