showtime needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 231 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
showtime is the highest-scoring word from showtime, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 231 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in showtime — and it is showtime itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling showtime produces exactly one seven-letter word: homiest. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling showtime turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are swithe, whites, whosit, and withes, 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 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in showtime. If a familiar word is all you need, start with homes, items, meths, moist, those, times, and white. For points, the strongest play is whims — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in showtime produces 89 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hits, home, hose, host, item, meth, and most. For points, the strongest plays are whim and whom — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling showtime turns up 64 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with him, his, hit, hot, how, its, and met. For points, the strongest plays are hew, how, and who — 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 28 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in showtime. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, ew, he, hi, hm, ho, and is. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 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 showtime and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
showtime is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
Dictionaries record one sense for showtime. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
showtime is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing showtime unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is showtime, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from showtime 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 showtime produce 231 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 8 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 89 four-letter words, 64 three-letter words and 28 two-letter words.