shogunates needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 643 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
shogunates is the highest-scoring word from shogunates, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 643 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in shogunates — and it is shogunates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling shogunates turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are shogunate and toughness, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shogunates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hostages and shotguns. For points, 7 words tie at 12 points, including hostages, shotguns and gashouse.
Rearranging the letters in shogunates produces 28 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hostage, shotgun, tangoes, and tongues. For points, 13 words tie at 11 points, including hostage, shotgun and enoughs.
Unscrambling shogunates turns up 91 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, anuses and enough. For points, 21 words tie at 10 points, including enough, ghosts and hugest.
There are 173 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shogunates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with seats, shoes and shone. For points, 24 words tie at 9 points, including ghost, hangs and ought.
Rearranging the letters in shogunates produces 195 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 shogunates turns up 112 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 shogunates. 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.
shogunates 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 shogunates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
shogunates is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shogunates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is shogunates, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from shogunates 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 shogunates produce 643 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 10 eight-letter words, 28 seven-letter words, 91 six-letter words, 173 five-letter words, 195 four-letter words, 112 three-letter words and 31 two-letter words.