Hidden inside shovelfuls sit shovelfuls and shovelsful, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 19 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 180 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
shovelfuls and shovelsful tie for the highest Scrabble score from shovelfuls at 19 points. The top 10 of 180 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in shovelfuls: one comes from rearranging its letters, and shovelfuls itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are shovelfuls and shovelsful, each worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling shovelfuls produces exactly one nine-letter word: shovelful. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in shovelfuls produces 4 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: flushes and shovels, worth 13 points apiece in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling shovelfuls turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with houses, louses, shells, shovel, shoves, and solves. For points, the strongest plays are hovels, shovel, and shoves — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 48 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shovelfuls. If a familiar word is all you need, start with flesh, floss, flush, fouls, hello, holes, and hoses. For points, the strongest plays are flesh, flush, hovel, shelf, and shove — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in shovelfuls produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fell, flus, foul, full, hell, hole, and hose. For points, the strongest plays are fehs and hove — 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 shovelfuls turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elf, flu, she, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are feh and foh — 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shovelfuls. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, ho, of, oh, sh, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ef, eh, fe, he, ho, of, 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.
shovelfuls 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 3-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 shovelfuls. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
shovelfuls is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shovelfuls unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are shovelfuls and shovelsful, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from shovelfuls 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 shovelfuls produce 180 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 1 nine-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 48 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.