Hidden inside shorten sit hornets, shorten, and thrones, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 203 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hornets, shorten, and thrones tie for the highest Scrabble score from shorten at 10 points. The top 10 of 203 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in shorten: two come from rearranging its letters, and shorten itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hornets, shorten, and thrones, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling shorten turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with honest and others. For points, the strongest plays are ethnos, herons, honers, honest, hornet, horste, norths, nosher, nother, others, reshot, senhor, thorns, throes, and throne — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 50 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shorten. If a familiar word is all you need, start with horns, horse, north, notes, other, rents, and shone. For points, the strongest plays are ethos, hents, herns, heron, heros, hoers, honer, hones, horns, horse, horst, hosen, hoser, north, other, shent, shero, shoer, shone, shore, shorn, short, shote, thens, thorn, those, and throe — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in shorten produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hens, hero, hers, horn, hose, host, and nest. For points, the strongest plays are eths, hens, hent, hern, hero, hers, hest, hets, hoer, hoes, hone, hons, horn, hose, host, hots, nosh, resh, rhos, shen, shoe, shot, soth, then, thro, and tosh — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling shorten turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hen, her, hot, net, nor, not, and one. For points, the strongest plays are eth, hen, her, hes, het, hoe, hon, hos, hot, noh, nth, ohs, rho, she, sho, soh, the, and tho — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shorten. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, ho, no, oh, on, and or. For points, the strongest plays are eh, 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.
Swap a single tile in shorten and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
shorten 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 shorten carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record five senses for shorten. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
shorten is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shorten unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hornets, shorten, and thrones, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from shorten 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 shorten produce 203 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 50 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.