Hidden inside shill sit hills and shill, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 13 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hills and shill tie for the highest Scrabble score from shill at 8 points. The top 10 of 13 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in shill: one comes from rearranging its letters, and shill itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hills. For points, the strongest plays are hills and shill — 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 shill produces 3 valid four-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: hill, 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 shill turns up 3 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with his and ill. For points, the strongest play is his — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shill. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hi, is, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are 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.
Swap a single tile in shill and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
shill 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 two senses for shill. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
shill is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shill unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hills and shill, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from shill 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 shill produce 13 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 3 four-letter words, 3 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.