Hidden inside sham sit hams, mash, and sham, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 16 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hams, mash, and sham tie for the highest Scrabble score from sham at 9 points. The top 10 of 16 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 four-letter words hiding in sham: two come from rearranging its letters, and sham itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hams. For points, the strongest plays are hams, mash, 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 sham turns up 6 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ash, ham, and has. For points, the strongest play is ham — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sham. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am, as, ha, hm, and sh. 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 sham and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
sham 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 sham carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record five senses for sham. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
sham is one of three four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sham unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hams, mash, and sham, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sham 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 sham produce 16 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 four-letter words, 6 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.