Hidden inside shrive sit shiver and shrive, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 55 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
shiver and shrive tie for the highest Scrabble score from shrive at 12 points. The top 10 of 55 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in shrive: one comes from rearranging its letters, and shrive itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are shiver and shrive, 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 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shrive. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hires and shier. For points, the strongest plays are hives and shive — 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 shrive produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hers, hire, and rise. For points, the strongest plays are hive and shiv — each 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 shrive turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, his, she, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are her, hes, hie, his, rev, sev, she, vie, and vis — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shrive. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, is, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, hi, 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 shrive and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
shrive 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in shrive carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for shrive. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
shrive is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shrive unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are shiver and shrive, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from shrive 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 shrive produce 55 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.