shallows needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 117 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
shallows is the highest-scoring word from shallows, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 117 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in shallows — and it is shallows itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in shallows produces 3 valid seven-letter words. 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.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling shallows turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with allows. For points, the strongest plays are hallow and shawls — 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 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shallows. If a familiar word is all you need, start with allow, halls, shall, shows, slows, and walls. For points, the strongest plays are howls, shawl, shaws, shows, shwas, and swash — 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 shallows produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, hall, laws, loss, owls, show, and slow. For points, the strongest plays are haws, howl, hows, shaw, 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 shallows turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, ash, ass, has, how, law, and low. For points, the strongest plays are haw, 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shallows. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, aw, ha, ho, oh, and ow. For points, the strongest plays are ah, aw, ha, ho, oh, ow, sh, 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in shallows plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in shallows and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
shallows 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 shallows. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
shallows is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shallows unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is shallows, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from shallows 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 shallows produce 117 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.