Hidden inside shearing sit hearings, hearsing, and shearing, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 325 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hearings, hearsing, and shearing tie for the highest Scrabble score from shearing at 12 points. The top 10 of 325 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in shearing: two come from rearranging its letters, and shearing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hearings. For points, the strongest plays are hearings, hearsing, and shearing — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in shearing produces 18 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erasing, hearing, and sharing. For points, the strongest plays are garnish, hangers, hearing, hegaris, hegiras, hingers, rehangs, and sharing — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling shearing turns up 45 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angers, easing, ranges, and singer. For points, the strongest plays are ashing, garish, gasher, geisha, gerahs, haeing, hanger, haring, hegari, hegira, hinger, hinges, neighs, nigher, rehang, and sigher — 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 71 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shearing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anger, earns, gains, hairs, hangs, hears, and hires. For points, the strongest plays are ahing, gerah, girsh, gnash, hangs, hinge, neigh, nighs, and sangh — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in shearing produces 98 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs, argh, earn, ears, eras, and gain. For points, the strongest plays are argh, gash, ghis, hags, hang, nigh, shag, and sigh — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling shearing turns up 68 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, are, ash, ear, era, and gas. For points, the strongest plays are ghi and hag — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shearing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an, as, eh, ha, he, and hi. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, hi, 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.
21 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in shearing plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in shearing 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.
shearing 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 shearing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
shearing is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shearing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hearings, hearsing, and shearing, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from shearing 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 shearing produce 325 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 18 seven-letter words, 45 six-letter words, 71 five-letter words, 98 four-letter words, 68 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.