Hidden inside sholve sit hovels and shovel, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 54 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
SHOLVE isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to HOVELS and SHOVEL.
hovels and shovel tie for the highest Scrabble score from sholve at 12 points. The top 10 of 54 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling sholve turns up 2 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with shovel. For points, the strongest plays are hovels and shovel — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sholve. If a familiar word is all you need, start with holes, loves, shove, and solve. For points, the strongest plays are hovel and shove — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in sholve produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hole, hose and lose. For points, the strongest play is hove — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in sholve plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sholve 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 hovels and shovel, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sholve 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 sholve produce 54 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.