Hidden inside shipmaster sit mastership and shipmaster, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 1010 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mastership and shipmaster tie for the highest Scrabble score from shipmaster at 17 points. The top 10 of 1010 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in shipmaster: one comes from rearranging its letters, and shipmaster itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mastership and shipmaster, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling shipmaster turns up 8 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mateships, misphrase, misshaper, samphires, seraphims, shipmates, and steamship, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 38 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shipmaster. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hamsters and sharpest. For points, the strongest plays are emphasis, mateship, misshape, samphire, seraphim, shipmate, teraphim, and trampish — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in shipmaster produces 101 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hamster, impress, maestri, masters, parties, permits, and phrases. For points, the strongest plays are empaths, hampers, mishaps, and shrimps — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling shipmaster turns up 194 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armies, hearts, master, permit, phases, phrase, and pirate. For points, the strongest plays are empath, hamper, mishap, pashms, and shrimp — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 277 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shipmaster. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pairs, parts, pasts, paths, phase, press, and prime. For points, the strongest plays are pashm and hemps — 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 shipmaster produces 244 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahem, aims, airs, apes, arms, arts, and maps. For points, the strongest play is hemp — 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 shipmaster turns up 116 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air, ape, are, arm, art, and ash. For points, the strongest plays are ham, hap, hem, hep, him, hip, meh, pah, peh, phi, and pht — 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 30 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shipmaster. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am, as, at, eh, ha, and he. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in shipmaster plus one additional letter.
shipmaster 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.
shipmaster is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shipmaster unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mastership and shipmaster, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from shipmaster 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 shipmaster produce 1010 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 8 nine-letter words, 38 eight-letter words, 101 seven-letter words, 194 six-letter words, 277 five-letter words, 244 four-letter words, 116 three-letter words and 30 two-letter words.