Hidden inside shmears sit marshes, mashers, shmears and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 134 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
marshes, mashers, shmears and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from shmears at 12 points. The top 10 of 134 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in shmears: three come from rearranging its letters, and shmears itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are marshes, mashers, shmears, and smasher, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling shmears turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rashes, shames, and shares. For points, the strongest plays are harems, masher, mashes, shames, and shmear — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shmears. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ashes, harms, hears, shame, share, and smash. For points, the strongest plays are haems, hames, harem, harms, herma, herms, marsh, shame, shams, and smash — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in shmears produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahem, arms, ears, eras, hams, harm, and hear. For points, the strongest plays are ahem, haem, hame, hams, harm, hems, herm, mash, mesh, and sham — 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 shmears turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm, ash, ass, ear, era, and ham. For points, the strongest plays are ham, hem, and meh — 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shmears. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am, as, eh, ha, he, and hm. 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.
Swap a single tile in shmears 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.
shmears 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 shmears carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for shmears. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
shmears is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shmears unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are marshes, mashers, shmears, and smasher, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from shmears 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 shmears produce 134 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.