Hidden inside housewares sit housewares and warehouses, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 375 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
housewares and warehouses tie for the highest Scrabble score from housewares at 16 points. The top 10 of 375 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in housewares: one comes from rearranging its letters, and housewares itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with warehouses. For points, the strongest plays are housewares and warehouses — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling housewares produces exactly one nine-letter word: warehouse. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in housewares. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are rewashes and sawhorse, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in housewares produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with showers. For points, the strongest plays are hawsers, reshows, shewers, showers, swasher, washers, and whereas — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling housewares turns up 65 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with assure, erases, heroes, horses, houses, rashes, and rushes. For points, the strongest plays are hawser, hawses, hewers, reshow, rewash, shewer, shower, shrews, washer, washes, wheres, and whores — 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 88 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in housewares. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ashes, eases, erase, hears, horse, hoses, and hours. For points, the strongest plays are hawse, hewer, howes, shaws, shews, shows, shrew, shwas, swash, where, whore, and whose — 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 housewares produces 104 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ears, ease, eras, hear, here, hero, and hers. For points, the strongest plays are haws, hews, howe, hows, shaw, shew, show, shwa, wash, whee, and whoa — 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 housewares turns up 69 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ash, ass, ear, era, has, and her. For points, the strongest plays are haw, hew, how, wha, and who — 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 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in housewares. 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, ho, oh, ow, sh, uh, we, and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in housewares plus one additional letter.
housewares 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 housewares carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
housewares is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing housewares unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are housewares and warehouses, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from housewares 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 housewares produce 375 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 1 nine-letter word, 5 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 65 six-letter words, 88 five-letter words, 104 four-letter words, 69 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.