Hidden inside slashes sit ashless, hassels, hassles and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 75 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ashless, hassels, hassles and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from slashes at 10 points. The top 10 of 75 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in slashes: three come from rearranging its letters, and slashes 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 ashless, hassels, hassles, and slashes, 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 slashes turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hassel, hassle, lashes, sashes, selahs, shales, and sheals, 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 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slashes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ashes, asses, heals, sales, and seals. For points, the strongest plays are ashes, hales, heals, leash, selah, shale, sheal, sheas, and slash — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in slashes produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with heal, less, sale, seal, and seas. For points, the strongest plays are haes, hale, heal, lahs, lash, sash, sesh, shea, and shes — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling slashes turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ash, ass, has, sea, and she. For points, the strongest plays are ahs, ash, hae, has, hes, lah, sha, and she — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slashes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, eh, ha, he, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, 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 slashes 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.
slashes 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 slashes carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record nine senses for slashes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
slashes is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing slashes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ashless, hassels, hassles, and slashes, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from slashes 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 slashes produce 75 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.