shovels needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 78 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
shovels is the highest-scoring word from shovels, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 78 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in shovels — and it is shovels itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling shovels turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with 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 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shovels. If a familiar word is all you need, start with holes, hoses, loses, loves, shoes, shove, and solve. For points, the strongest plays are hovel 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 shovels produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hole, hose, less, lose, loss, love, and shoe. For points, the strongest play is hove — 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 shovels turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with she. For points, the strongest plays are hes, hoe, hos, lev, ohs, sev, she, sho, soh, and voe — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shovels. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, ho, oh, sh, and so. 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 shovels 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.
shovels 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record five senses for shovels. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
shovels is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shovels unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is shovels, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from shovels 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 shovels produce 78 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.