Hidden inside trashes sit rashest and trashes, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 169 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
rashest and trashes tie for the highest Scrabble score from trashes at 10 points. The top 10 of 169 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in trashes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and trashes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with trashes. For points, the strongest plays are rashest and trashes — 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 trashes turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hearts, rashes, shares, and stares. For points, the strongest plays are earths, hastes, haters, hearts, rashes, shares, sharts, and shears — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 42 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in trashes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ashes, earth, hates, hears, heart, heats, and rates. For points, the strongest plays are ashes, earth, haets, hares, harts, haste, hater, hates, hears, heart, heats, hests, rathe, rheas, share, shart, shear, sheas, stash, tahrs, and trash — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in trashes produces 58 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears, east, eats, eras, hate, and hats. For points, the strongest plays are eath, eths, haes, haet, hare, hart, hast, hate, hats, hear, heat, hers, hest, hets, rash, rath, resh, rhea, sash, sesh, shat, shea, shes, tahr, and thae — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling trashes turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ash, ass, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are ahs, ash, eth, hae, has, hat, her, hes, het, rah, sha, she, and the — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in trashes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, at, eh, ha, he, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, 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 trashes 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.
trashes 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 six senses for trashes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
trashes is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing trashes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are rashest and trashes, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from trashes 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 trashes produce 169 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 42 five-letter words, 58 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.