Hidden inside shrinkage sit kashering and shrinkage, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 480 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
kashering and shrinkage tie for the highest Scrabble score from shrinkage at 17 points. The top 10 of 480 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in shrinkage: one comes from rearranging its letters, and shrinkage itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are kashering and shrinkage, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shrinkage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hearings. For points, the strongest plays are gherkins and sharking — each 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 shrinkage produces 29 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erasing, hearing, shaking, and sharing. For points, the strongest plays are gherkin, harking, shaking, and skreigh — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling shrinkage turns up 71 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angers, asking, easing, ranges, shaken, shrank, and shrink. For points, the strongest play is skeigh — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 119 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shrinkage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anger, earns, gains, hairs, hangs, hears, and hikes. For points, the strongest plays are ankhs, haiks, hakes, hanks, harks, hiker, hikes, khans, knish, nikah, shake, shank, shark, sheik, and shirk — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in shrinkage produces 147 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs, argh, earn, ears, eras, and gain. For points, the strongest plays are ankh, haik, hake, hank, hark, hike, khan, and khis — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling shrinkage turns up 83 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, are, ash, ask, ear, and era. For points, the strongest play is khi — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shrinkage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an, as, eh, ha, he, and hi. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ki — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in shrinkage plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in shrinkage 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.
shrinkage 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 three senses for shrinkage. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
shrinkage is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shrinkage unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are kashering and shrinkage, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from shrinkage 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 shrinkage produce 480 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 29 seven-letter words, 71 six-letter words, 119 five-letter words, 147 four-letter words, 83 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.