Hidden inside brushes sit brushes and bushers, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 81 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
brushes and bushers tie for the highest Scrabble score from brushes at 12 points. The top 10 of 81 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in brushes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and brushes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with brushes. For points, the strongest plays are brushes and bushers — 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 brushes turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bushes and rushes. For points, the strongest plays are busher, bushes, and shrubs — 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 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in brushes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with brush and buses. For points, the strongest plays are bruhs, brush, buhrs, herbs, and shrub — 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 brushes produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bush, hers, rubs, rush, subs, sues, and sure. For points, the strongest plays are bruh, buhr, bush, herb, and hubs — 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 brushes turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bus, her, rub, she, sub, sue, and use. For points, the strongest play is hub — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in brushes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, eh, he, sh, uh, and us. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, 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.
Swap a single tile in brushes 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.
brushes 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 fifteen senses for brushes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
brushes is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing brushes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are brushes and bushers, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from brushes 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 brushes produce 81 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.