Hidden inside shipmate sit mateship and shipmate, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 311 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mateship and shipmate tie for the highest Scrabble score from shipmate at 15 points. The top 10 of 311 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in shipmate: one comes from rearranging its letters, and shipmate itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mateship and shipmate, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in shipmate produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is empaths, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling shipmate turns up 12 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are empath and mishap, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 63 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shipmate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hates, heats and items. For points, the strongest plays are hemps and pashm — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in shipmate produces 122 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahem, aims and apes. For points, the strongest play is hemp — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling shipmate turns up 81 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ape and ash. For points, 11 words tie at 8 points, including ham, him and hip.
There are 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shipmate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am and as. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
6 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in shipmate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in shipmate and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
shipmate 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 one sense for shipmate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
shipmate is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shipmate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mateship and shipmate, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from shipmate 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 shipmate produce 311 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 63 five-letter words, 122 four-letter words, 81 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.