Hidden inside tushes sit shutes, tushes, and tusseh, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 48 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
shutes, tushes, and tusseh tie for the highest Scrabble score from tushes at 9 points. The top 10 of 48 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in tushes: two come from rearranging its letters, and tushes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are shutes, tushes, and tusseh, 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 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tushes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with shuts. For points, the strongest plays are hests, shute, and shuts — 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 tushes produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sets, shut, sues, thus, and uses. For points, the strongest plays are eths, hest, hets, hues, huts, sesh, shes, shut, thus, and tush — 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 tushes turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with set, she, sue, the, and use. For points, the strongest plays are eth, hes, het, hue, hut, 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tushes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, sh, uh, and us. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, 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.
Swap a single tile in tushes and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
tushes 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 tushes carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for tushes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
tushes is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tushes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are shutes, tushes, and tusseh, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tushes 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 tushes produce 48 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.