Hidden inside shipim is one standout: impish, a six-letter play worth 13 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 30 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble HIMIPS, IPMISH or IMIPSH and you get the same 6 letters as SHIPIM: so the words from SHIPIM listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
SHIPIM isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to IMPISH (adjective), mischievous, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
impish is the highest-scoring word from shipim, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 30 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling shipim produces exactly one six-letter word: impish. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling shipim produces exactly one five-letter word: impis. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in shipim produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hips and ship. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including hips, ship and hims.
Unscrambling shipim turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with him, hip, his, and sip. For points, the strongest plays are him, hip, and phi — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
2 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in shipim plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in shipim 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.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is impish, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from shipim 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 shipim produce 30 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 1 five-letter word, 10 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.