Hidden inside shallow sit hallows and shallow, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 89 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble WHALLOS, WOSHALL or WHOLLSA and you get the same 7 letters as SHALLOW: so the words from SHALLOW listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
hallows and shallow tie for the highest Scrabble score from shallow at 13 points. The top 10 of 89 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in shallow: one comes from rearranging its letters, and shallow itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with shallow. For points, the strongest plays are hallows and shallow — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shallow. If a familiar word is all you need, start with allow, halls, shall, and walls. For points, the strongest plays are howls and shawl — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in shallow produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, hall and laws. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including show, wash and whoa.
Unscrambling shallow turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, ash and has. For points, the strongest plays are haw, how, wha, and who — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shallow. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as and aw. For points, 8 words tie at 5 points, including ah, aw and ha.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in shallow plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in shallow 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.
shallow 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 six senses for shallow. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
shallow is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shallow unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hallows and shallow, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from shallow 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 shallow produce 89 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.