showtimes needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 313 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
showtimes is the highest-scoring word from showtimes, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 313 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in showtimes — and it is showtimes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in showtimes. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is showtime, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in showtimes produces 5 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is whosits, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling showtimes turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with shiest, wisest, and wishes. For points, the strongest plays are swithe, whists, whites, whosis, whosit, wishes, 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 72 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in showtimes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with homes, hoses, hosts, items, meths, moist, and shoes. 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 showtimes produces 110 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hits, home, hose, host, item, mess, and meth. 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 showtimes turns up 67 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 showtimes. 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 showtimes and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
showtimes 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 showtimes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
showtimes is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing showtimes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is showtimes, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from showtimes 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 showtimes produce 313 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 72 five-letter words, 110 four-letter words, 67 three-letter words and 28 two-letter words.