Hidden inside hammers sit hammers and shammer, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 112 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hammers and shammer tie for the highest Scrabble score from hammers at 14 points. The top 10 of 112 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in hammers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hammers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hammers. For points, the strongest plays are hammers and shammer — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hammers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with harms, hears, shame, and share. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including harms, shame and haems.
Rearranging the letters in hammers produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahem, arms and ears. For points, 10 words tie at 9 points, including ahem, hams and harm.
Unscrambling hammers turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm and ash. For points, the strongest play is hmm — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hammers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am and as. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in hammers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in hammers 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.
hammers 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 ten senses for hammers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
hammers is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hammers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hammers and shammer, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hammers 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 hammers produce 112 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.