Hidden inside masher sit harems, masher, and shmear, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 102 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
harems, masher, and shmear tie for the highest Scrabble score from masher at 11 points. The top 10 of 102 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in masher: two come from rearranging its letters, and masher itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are harems, masher, and shmear, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in masher. If a familiar word is all you need, start with harms, hears, shame, and share. For points, the strongest plays are haems, hames, harem, harms, herma, herms, marsh, and shame — 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 masher produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahem, arms, ears, eras, hams, harm, and hear. For points, the strongest plays are ahem, haem, hame, hams, harm, hems, herm, mash, mesh, and sham — 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 masher turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm, ash, ear, era, ham, and has. For points, the strongest plays are ham, hem, and meh — 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in masher. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am, as, eh, ha, he, and hm. 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 masher 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.
masher 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 masher carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for masher. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
masher is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing masher unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are harems, masher, and shmear, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from masher 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 masher produce 102 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.