Hidden inside ship sit hips, phis, pish and 1 other, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 15 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hips, phis, pish and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from ship at 9 points. The top 10 of 15 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 four-letter words hiding in ship: three come from rearranging its letters, and ship itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hips and ship. For points, the strongest plays are hips, phis, pish, and ship — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ship turns up 6 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hip, his, and sip. For points, the strongest plays are hip and phi — each worth 8 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 ship. 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 ship and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
ship 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 ship carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record six senses for ship. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
ship is one of four four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ship unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hips, phis, pish, and ship, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ship 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 ship produce 15 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 four-letter words, 6 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.