shogunate needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 490 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
shogunate is the highest-scoring word from shogunate, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 490 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in shogunate — and it is shogunate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shogunate. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hangouts and toughens, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in shogunate produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hostage, shotgun, tangoes, and tongues. For points, 10 words tie at 11 points, including hostage, shotgun and enoughs.
Unscrambling shogunate turns up 38 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, enough and haunts. For points, 15 words tie at 10 points, including enough, hugest and sought.
There are 120 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shogunate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, aunts and autos. For points, 21 words tie at 9 points, including ghost, hangs and ought.
Rearranging the letters in shogunate produces 173 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ants and anus. For points, 18 words tie at 8 points, including gosh, hang and hogs.
Unscrambling shogunate turns up 108 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago and ant. For points, the strongest plays are hag, hog, hug, and ugh — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 31 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shogunate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an and as. For points, 8 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in shogunate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in shogunate and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
shogunate 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 2-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 shogunate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
shogunate is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shogunate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is shogunate, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from shogunate 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 shogunate produce 490 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 38 six-letter words, 120 five-letter words, 173 four-letter words, 108 three-letter words and 31 two-letter words.