Hidden inside shears sit rashes, shares, and shears, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 65 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
rashes, shares, and shears tie for the highest Scrabble score from shears at 9 points. The top 10 of 65 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in shears: two come from rearranging its letters, and shears itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rashes and shares. For points, the strongest plays are rashes, shares, and shears — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shears. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ashes, hears, and share. For points, the strongest plays are ashes, hares, hears, rheas, share, shear, and sheas — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in shears produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ears, eras, hear, hers, rash, and seas. For points, the strongest plays are haes, hare, hear, hers, rash, resh, rhea, sash, sesh, shea, and shes — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling shears turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ash, ass, ear, era, has, and her. For points, the strongest plays are ahs, ash, hae, has, her, hes, rah, sha, and she — 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 shears. 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.
31 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in shears plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in shears 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.
shears 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for shears. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
shears is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shears unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are rashes, shares, and shears, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from shears 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 shears produce 65 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.