Hidden inside lushest sit hustles, lushest, and sleuths, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 81 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hustles, lushest, and sleuths tie for the highest Scrabble score from lushest at 10 points. The top 10 of 81 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in lushest: two come from rearranging its letters, and lushest itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hustles, lushest, and sleuths, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lushest turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hustle, lushes, shutes and 3 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lushest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with shuts. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including shuts, hests and shuls.
Rearranging the letters in lushest produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with less, lets and sets. For points, 12 words tie at 7 points, including shut, thus and eths.
Unscrambling lushest turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with let, set and she. For points, 7 words tie at 6 points, including she, the and eth.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lushest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he and sh. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, sh, and uh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
6 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in lushest plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lushest 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.
lushest 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.
lushest is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lushest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hustles, lushest, and sleuths, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lushest 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 lushest produce 81 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.