shrinkages needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 631 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
shrinkages is the highest-scoring word from shrinkages, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 631 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in shrinkages — and it is shrinkages itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling shrinkages turns up 4 nine-letter words. 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.
There are 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shrinkages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hearings. For points, the strongest plays are gherkins, sharking, and skreighs — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in shrinkages produces 64 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erasing, hearing and shaking. For points, the strongest plays are gherkin, harking, shaking, and skreigh — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling shrinkages turns up 119 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angers, asking and assign. For points, the strongest play is skeigh — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 157 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shrinkages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anger, ashes and earns. For points, 15 words tie at 12 points, including hikes, shake and shark.
Rearranging the letters in shrinkages produces 166 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs and argh. For points, 8 words tie at 11 points, including hike, ankh and haik.
Unscrambling shrinkages turns up 86 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air and are. For points, the strongest play is khi — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shrinkages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an and as. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ki — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
shrinkages 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 shrinkages. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
shrinkages is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shrinkages unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is shrinkages, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from shrinkages 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 shrinkages produce 631 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 nine-letter words, 10 eight-letter words, 64 seven-letter words, 119 six-letter words, 157 five-letter words, 166 four-letter words, 86 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.