Hidden inside shrives sit shivers and shrives, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 78 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
shivers and shrives tie for the highest Scrabble score from shrives at 13 points. The top 10 of 78 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in shrives: one comes from rearranging its letters, and shrives itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are shivers and shrives, each 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 shrives turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are shiver, shives, 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 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shrives. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hires, rises, and shier. For points, the strongest plays are hives, shive, and shivs — 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 shrives produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hers, hire, rise, and sirs. 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 shrives turns up 19 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 shrives. 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 shrives and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
shrives 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 shrives carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for shrives. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
shrives is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shrives unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are shivers and shrives, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from shrives 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 shrives produce 78 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.