Hidden inside shingle sit english and shingle, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 99 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
english and shingle tie for the highest Scrabble score from shingle at 11 points. The top 10 of 99 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in shingle: one comes from rearranging its letters, and shingle itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with english. For points, the strongest plays are english and shingle — 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 shingle turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with single and sleigh. For points, the strongest plays are hinges, neighs, and sleigh — 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 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shingle. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lines and shine. For points, the strongest plays are hinge, neigh, and nighs — 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 shingle produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hens, legs, lies, line, sign, and sing. For points, the strongest plays are ghis, nigh, 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 shingle turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hen, his, leg, lie, she, and sin. For points, the strongest play is ghi — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shingle. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, in, is, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are eh, 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.
Swap a single tile in shingle and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
shingle 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for shingle. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
shingle is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shingle unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are english and shingle, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from shingle 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 shingle produce 99 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.