Hidden inside shamed sit emdash, mashed, and shamed, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 87 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
emdash, mashed, and shamed tie for the highest Scrabble score from shamed at 12 points. The top 10 of 87 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in shamed: two come from rearranging its letters, and shamed itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are emdash, mashed, and shamed, 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 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shamed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with heads and shame. For points, the strongest plays are haems, hames, and shame — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in shamed produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahem, hams, head, made, and same. For points, the strongest plays are ahem, haem, hame, hams, hems, mash, mesh, 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 shamed turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ash, had, ham, has, mad, and sad. For points, the strongest plays are ham, hem, and meh — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shamed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah, am, as, eh, ha, and he. 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 shamed 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.
shamed 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 shamed carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for shamed. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
shamed is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shamed unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are emdash, mashed, and shamed, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from shamed 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 shamed produce 87 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.