Hidden inside shallower sit hallowers and shallower, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 356 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hallowers and shallower tie for the highest Scrabble score from shallower at 15 points. The top 10 of 356 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in shallower: one comes from rearranging its letters, and shallower itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with shallower. For points, the strongest plays are hallowers and shallower — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shallower. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is hallower, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in shallower produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with shallow. For points, the strongest plays are hallows, howlers, shallow, and whalers — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling shallower turns up 35 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with allows, lowers, shower, slower, and whales. For points, the strongest plays are hallow, hawser, howler, reshow, rewash, shower, washer, whaler, whales, wheals, wholes, whores, and whorls — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 101 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shallower. If a familiar word is all you need, start with allow, halls, heals, hears, hello, holes, and horse. For points, the strongest plays are hawse, howes, howls, shawl, shrew, welsh, whale, wheal, whole, whore, whorl, and whose — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in shallower produces 113 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, ears, eras, hall, heal, hear, and hell. For points, the strongest plays are haws, hews, howe, howl, hows, shaw, shew, show, shwa, wash, and whoa — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling shallower turns up 69 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, are, ash, ear, era, has, and her. For points, the strongest plays are haw, hew, how, wha, and who — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shallower. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, aw, eh, ew, ha, and he. For points, the strongest plays are ah, aw, eh, ew, ha, he, ho, oh, ow, sh, we, and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in shallower plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in shallower and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
shallower 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.
shallower is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shallower unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hallowers and shallower, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from shallower 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 shallower produce 356 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 35 six-letter words, 101 five-letter words, 113 four-letter words, 69 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.