Hidden inside shotgun sit gunshot, hognuts, noughts and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 135 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gunshot, hognuts, noughts and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from shotgun at 11 points. The top 10 of 135 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in shotgun: three come from rearranging its letters, and shotgun itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with shotgun. For points, the strongest plays are gunshot, hognuts, noughts, and shotgun — 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 shotgun turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sought. For points, the strongest plays are hognut, nought, oughts, shogun, sought, thongs, and toughs — 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 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shotgun. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ghost, hunts, ought, shout, south, stung, and tough. For points, the strongest plays are ghost, goths, hongs, ought, sough, thong, thugs, and tough — 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 shotgun produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gosh, guns, guts, hogs, host, hugs, and hung. For points, the strongest plays are gosh, goth, gush, hogs, hong, hugs, hung, shog, sugh, thug, and ughs — 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 shotgun turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with got, gun, gut, hog, hot, hug, and not. For points, the strongest plays are hog, hug, and ugh — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shotgun. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, ho, no, oh, on, sh, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ho, oh, sh, and uh — 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 shotgun 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.
shotgun 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 shotgun. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
shotgun is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shotgun unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gunshot, hognuts, noughts, and shotgun, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from shotgun 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 shotgun produce 135 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.