Hidden inside shaming sit mashing and shaming, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 114 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble GHSIMAN or HNIGASM and you get the same 7 letters as SHAMING: so the words from SHAMING listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
mashing and shaming tie for the highest Scrabble score from shaming at 13 points. The top 10 of 114 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in shaming: one comes from rearranging its letters, and shaming itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. 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.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shaming. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gains and hangs. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including hangs, ahing and gnash.
Rearranging the letters in shaming produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, gain and hams. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including hams, hims and mash.
Unscrambling shaming turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ash and gas. For points, the strongest plays are ham and him — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shaming. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am and an. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
4 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in shaming plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in shaming and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
shaming 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
shaming is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shaming unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mashing and shaming, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from shaming 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 shaming produce 114 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.