shovelling needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 370 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
shovelling is the highest-scoring word from shovelling, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 370 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in shovelling — and it is shovelling itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling shovelling turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hovelling and shoveling, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shovelling. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hoveling and shelving, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in shovelling produces 20 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with english, selling, shoving, and solving. For points, the strongest plays are helving and shoving — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling shovelling turns up 46 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gloves, losing and loving. For points, the strongest plays are elvish, hovels, and shovel — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 92 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shovelling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with given, gives and glove. For points, the strongest plays are hives, hovel, shive, and shove — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in shovelling produces 117 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egos, evil and give. For points, the strongest plays are hive, hove, and shiv — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling shovelling turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, hen and his. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including hog, ghi and veg.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shovelling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, go and he. For points, 6 words tie at 5 points, including eh, he and hi.
shovelling 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
shovelling is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shovelling unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is shovelling, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from shovelling 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 shovelling produce 370 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 20 seven-letter words, 46 six-letter words, 92 five-letter words, 117 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.