Hidden inside shader sit dasher, shader, and shared, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 101 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dasher, shader, and shared tie for the highest Scrabble score from shader at 10 points. The top 10 of 101 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in shader: two come from rearranging its letters, and shader itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with shared. For points, the strongest plays are dasher, shader, and shared — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shader. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dares, dears, heads, heard, hears, reads, and share. For points, the strongest plays are ashed, deash, hades, hards, hared, heads, heard, herds, sadhe, shade, shard, sherd, and shred — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in shader produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, dear, ears, eras, hard, head, and hear. For points, the strongest plays are ahed, dahs, dash, edhs, hade, haed, hard, head, herd, shad, and shed — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling shader turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, are, ash, ear, era, had, and has. For points, the strongest plays are dah, edh, and had — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shader. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah, as, eh, ha, he, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
29 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in shader plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in shader 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.
shader 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.
shader is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shader unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dasher, shader, and shared, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from shader 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 shader produce 101 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.