Hidden inside polishes sit pisshole and polishes, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 212 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pisshole and polishes tie for the highest Scrabble score from polishes at 13 points. The top 10 of 212 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in polishes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and polishes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with polishes. For points, the strongest plays are pisshole and polishes — 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 polishes produces 3 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 hipless and sophies, 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 polishes turns up 24 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with polish and spoils. For points, the strongest plays are pishes, polish, shleps, and splosh — 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 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in polishes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with helps, holes, hopes, hoses, loses, piles, and poles. For points, the strongest plays are helps, hopes, pheos, ships, shlep, shops, and sophs — 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 polishes produces 71 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with help, hips, hole, hope, hops, hose, and less. For points, the strongest plays are help, heps, hips, holp, hope, hops, pehs, pheo, phis, phos, pish, posh, ship, shop, and soph — 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 polishes turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hip, his, hop, lie, lip, oil, and pie. 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in polishes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, ho, is, oh, and sh. 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 polishes 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.
polishes 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 eight senses for polishes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
polishes is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing polishes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pisshole and polishes, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from polishes 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 polishes produce 212 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 24 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 71 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.