gumshoe needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 110 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gumshoe is the highest-scoring word from gumshoe, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 110 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in gumshoe — and it is gumshoe itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling gumshoe produces exactly one six-letter word: ugsome. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gumshoe. If a familiar word is all you need, start with homes, house, and mouse. For points, the strongest plays are homes and shmoe — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in gumshoe produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egos, goes, gosh, gums, hogs, home, and hose. For points, the strongest plays are hems, home, homs, hums, mesh, mhos, mosh, mush, ohms, and shmo — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling gumshoe turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, gum, hog, hug, mug, she, and sue. For points, the strongest plays are hem, hom, hum, meh, mho, and ohm — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gumshoe. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, go, he, hm, ho, me, and oh. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 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 gumshoe 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.
gumshoe 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for gumshoe. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
gumshoe is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gumshoe unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is gumshoe, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from gumshoe 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 gumshoe produce 110 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 8 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.