Hidden inside washes sit hawses and washes, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 55 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hawses and washes tie for the highest Scrabble score from washes at 12 points. The top 10 of 55 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in washes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and washes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with washes. For points, the strongest plays are hawses and washes — 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 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in washes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ashes. For points, the strongest plays are hawse, shaws, shews, shwas, and swash — each 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 washes produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with seas, sews, and wash. For points, the strongest plays are haws, hews, shaw, shew, shwa, and wash — 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 washes turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ash, ass, has, saw, sea, sew, and she. For points, the strongest plays are haw, hew, and wha — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in washes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, aw, eh, ew, ha, and he. For points, the strongest plays are ah, aw, eh, ew, ha, he, sh, and we — 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 washes 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.
washes 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 twenty-one senses for washes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
washes is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing washes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hawses and washes, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from washes 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 washes produce 55 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.