tarnish needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 158 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tarnish is the highest-scoring word from tarnish, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 158 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in tarnish — and it is tarnish itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 36 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tarnish. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hairs, hints and rains. For points, 14 words tie at 8 points, including hairs, hints and shirt.
Rearranging the letters in tarnish produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, ants and arts. For points, 24 words tie at 7 points, including hair, hats and hint.
Unscrambling tarnish turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant and art. For points, 12 words tie at 6 points, including ash, has and hat.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tarnish. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an and as. For points, the strongest plays are ah, ha, hi, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
7 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in tarnish plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tarnish 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.
tarnish 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in tarnish carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for tarnish. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
tarnish is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tarnish unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tarnish, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tarnish 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 tarnish produce 158 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 9 six-letter words, 36 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.