shortages 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, 505 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
shortages is the highest-scoring word from shortages, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 505 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in shortages — and it is shortages itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shortages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hostages. For points, the strongest plays are hostages and shortage — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in shortages produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gathers, hostage, storage, and trashes. For points, the strongest plays are gashest, gathers, gheraos, and hostage — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling shortages turns up 71 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gather, ghosts, hearts, horses, others, rashes, and roasts. For points, the strongest plays are garths, gasher, gashes, gather, gerahs, gherao, and ghosts — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 143 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shortages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ashes, earth, gases, gates, ghost, goats, and grass. For points, the strongest plays are garth, gerah, ghast, ghats, ghost, goeth, goths, shags, and shogs — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in shortages produces 156 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, argh, arts, ears, east, eats, and egos. For points, the strongest plays are argh, gash, ghat, gosh, goth, hags, hogs, shag, and shog — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling shortages turns up 89 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, are, art, ash, ass, and ate. For points, the strongest plays are hag and hog — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shortages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, at, eh, go, ha, and he. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, ho, oh, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in shortages plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in shortages 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.
shortages 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 shortages carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for shortages. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
shortages is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shortages unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is shortages, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from shortages 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 shortages produce 505 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 5 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 71 six-letter words, 143 five-letter words, 156 four-letter words, 89 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.