Hidden inside shaped sit hasped, pashed, phased and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 91 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hasped, pashed, phased and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from shaped at 12 points. The top 10 of 91 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in shaped: three come from rearranging its letters, and shaped itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with shaped. For points, the strongest plays are hasped, pashed, phased, and shaped — 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 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shaped. If a familiar word is all you need, start with heads, phase, and shape. For points, the strongest plays are ephas, heaps, phase, and shape — 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 shaped produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, head, pads, and peas. For points, the strongest plays are epha, haps, hasp, heap, heps, pash, and pehs — 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 shaped turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ape, ash, had, has, pad, and pea. For points, the strongest plays are hap, hep, pah, and peh — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shaped. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah, as, eh, ha, he, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, and sh — each worth 5 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 shaped 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.
shaped 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 shaped carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for shaped. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
shaped is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shaped unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hasped, pashed, phased, and shaped, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from shaped 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 shaped produce 91 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.