Hidden inside shamings sit shamings and smashing, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 149 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
shamings and smashing tie for the highest Scrabble score from shamings at 14 points. The top 10 of 149 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in shamings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and shamings itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with smashing. For points, the strongest plays are shamings and smashing — each 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 shamings produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mashing and shaming, 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 shamings turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with assign. For points, the strongest plays are ashing and sanghs — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shamings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gains, hangs, signs, sings, and smash. For points, the strongest plays are shams, shims, and smash — 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 shamings produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, gain, hams, hang, main, mass, and miss. For points, the strongest plays are hams, hims, mash, sham, and shim — 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 shamings turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ash, ass, gas, ham, has, and him. For points, the strongest plays are ham and him — 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 shamings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am, an, as, ha, hi, and hm. 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 shamings 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.
shamings is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
shamings is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shamings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are shamings and smashing, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from shamings 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 shamings produce 149 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.