Hidden inside refurbish sit brushfire, furbisher, and refurbish, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 194 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
brushfire, furbisher, and refurbish tie for the highest Scrabble score from refurbish at 17 points. The top 10 of 194 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in refurbish: two come from rearranging its letters, and refurbish itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are brushfire, furbisher, and refurbish, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in refurbish. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are burrfish and bushfire, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in refurbish produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hurries. For points, the strongest play is furbish — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling refurbish turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with buries and busier. For points, the strongest plays are fisher, fuhrer, and sherif — 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 41 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in refurbish. If a familiar word is all you need, start with brief, brush, fires, fresh, fries, hires, and shier. For points, the strongest play is fresh — 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 refurbish produces 54 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bush, fire, fish, furs, hers, hire, and ribs. 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 refurbish turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bus, fur, her, his, rib, rub, and she. 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 refurbish. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, eh, he, hi, if, is, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are ef, eh, fe, he, hi, if, 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.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in refurbish plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in refurbish and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
refurbish 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 one sense for refurbish. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
refurbish is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing refurbish unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are brushfire, furbisher, and refurbish, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from refurbish 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 refurbish produce 194 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 41 five-letter words, 54 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.