Hidden inside refurnish sit furnisher and refurnish, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 202 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
furnisher and refurnish tie for the highest Scrabble score from refurnish at 15 points. The top 10 of 202 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in refurnish: one comes from rearranging its letters, and refurnish 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 furnisher and refurnish, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in refurnish produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hurries. For points, the strongest plays are fuhrers and furnish — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling refurnish turns up 23 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words 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 refurnish. If a familiar word is all you need, start with finer, fires, fresh, fries, hires, nurse, and risen. 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 refurnish produces 60 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fine, fire, fish, furs, hens, hers, and hire. 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 refurnish turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fun, fur, hen, her, his, run, 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in refurnish. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, if, in, 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in refurnish plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in refurnish 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.
refurnish 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 refurnish. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
refurnish is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing refurnish unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are furnisher and refurnish, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from refurnish 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 refurnish produce 202 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 41 five-letter words, 60 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.