Hidden inside shogul sit ghouls, loughs, and slough, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 44 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
SHOGUL isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to GHOULS, LOUGHS and SLOUGH.
ghouls, loughs, and slough tie for the highest Scrabble score from shogul at 10 points. The top 10 of 44 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling shogul turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ghouls, loughs, and slough, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shogul. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ghoul, lough, and sough, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in shogul produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gosh, hogs and hugs. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including gosh, hogs and hugs.
Unscrambling shogul turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hog, hug, log, and ugh. For points, the strongest plays are hog, hug, and ugh — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shogul. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, ho and oh. For points, the strongest plays are ho, oh, sh, and uh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
6 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in shogul plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in shogul 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 plays from these letters are ghouls, loughs, and slough, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from shogul 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 shogul produce 44 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.