Hidden inside shortened sit dethrones, shortened, and threnodes, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 462 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dethrones, shortened, and threnodes tie for the highest Scrabble score from shortened at 13 points. The top 10 of 462 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in shortened: two come from rearranging its letters, and shortened itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dethrones, shortened, and threnodes, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shortened. If a familiar word is all you need, start with honester. For points, the strongest plays are dethrone and threnode — 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 shortened produces 23 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dehorns, dehorts, othered, reshoed, shorted, thorned, and throned, 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 shortened turns up 82 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desert, enters, heroes, honest, hosted, others, and rented. For points, the strongest plays are dehorn, dehors, dehort, heders, hented, hordes, horned, horsed, hosted, noshed, reshod, and shored — 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 129 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shortened. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, enter, horns, horse, needs, nerds, and north. For points, the strongest plays are doeth, heder, heeds, herds, honed, horde, hosed, shend, sherd, shoed, and shred — 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 shortened produces 126 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, does, done, dots, ends, hens, and here. For points, the strongest plays are dohs, dosh, doth, edhs, heed, herd, hods, hoed, ohed, shed, and shod — 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 shortened turns up 73 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dot, end, hen, her, hot, net, and nor. For points, the strongest plays are doh, edh, and hod — 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 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shortened. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, eh, he, ho, no, oh, and on. 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.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in shortened plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in shortened 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.
shortened 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 shortened carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record four senses for shortened. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
shortened is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shortened unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dethrones, shortened, and threnodes, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from shortened 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 shortened produce 462 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 23 seven-letter words, 82 six-letter words, 129 five-letter words, 126 four-letter words, 73 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.