Hidden inside shaver sit havers and shaver, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 72 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
havers and shaver tie for the highest Scrabble score from shaver at 12 points. The top 10 of 72 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in shaver: one comes from rearranging its letters, and shaver 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 havers and shaver, 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 shaver. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hears, share, and shave. For points, the strongest plays are haver, haves, and shave — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in shaver produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ears, eras, have, hear, hers, rash, and save. For points, the strongest play is have — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling shaver turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ash, ear, era, has, her, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are ahs, ash, ave, hae, has, her, hes, rah, rev, sev, sha, she, var, and vas — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shaver. If a familiar word is all you need, start with 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 shaver 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.
shaver 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 shaver carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for shaver. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
shaver is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shaver unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are havers and shaver, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from shaver 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 shaver produce 72 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.