Hidden inside shivering sit shivering and shrieving, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 194 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
shivering and shrieving tie for the highest Scrabble score from shivering at 16 points. The top 10 of 194 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in shivering: one comes from rearranging its letters, and shivering 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 shivering and shrieving, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shivering. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are inveighs and shriving, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in shivering produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with serving, shinier, and virgins. For points, the strongest plays are inveigh and shiving — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling shivering turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hiring, rising, singer, and virgin. For points, the strongest play is hiving — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 41 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shivering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genii, given, gives, hires, rings, risen, 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 shivering produces 54 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with give, hens, hers, hire, rigs, ring, 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 shivering turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hen, her, his, rig, she, sin, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are ghi, veg, and vig — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shivering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, in, 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.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in shivering plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in shivering 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.
shivering 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for shivering. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
shivering is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shivering unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are shivering and shrieving, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from shivering 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 shivering produce 194 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 41 five-letter words, 54 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.