Unscramble SHOVELS and you have 91 words, SHOVELS itself among them: it scores 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, SHOVEL, SHOVES and HOVELS lead with 12 points. 7 letters: 2 vowels and 5 consonants. SHOVELS as a single 7-tile play makes 63 in Scrabble, 13 plus the 50 bonus, and 49 in Words With Friends (14 + 35).
HOVELSS unscrambles to SHOVELS: these are all the words its letters make. Looking for shvloes, svhsleo, helsovs, lovessh, vlshoes, shslove, shsolve, lehvoss or lhsevos? They use the same letters as SHOVELS, so the words on this page are their answers too.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from SHOVELS by length: 1 with 7 letters, 6 with 6, 19 with 5, 31 with 4, 23 with 3 and 11 with 2.
Among the 4-letter words you get when you unscramble SHOVELS, HOVE leads with 10 points, then EVOS and HELO on 7. LOVE, LESS and LOSS are the familiar ones.
Trade one tile of SHOVELS for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 7-letter words: starting with SH · ending in LS · all 7-letter words
What SHOVELS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes. SHOVELS is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHOVELS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 91) | 78 | 91 | 69 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
13 of the 91 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: HOVES, OVELS, SLOVE, EVOS, LOSH, OVEL, SOVS, VOLS, EHS, EVO, SOV, VOL and 1 more. 9 of the 91 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: HOSS, LEVS, SESH, SEVS, SOHS, HOS, SEV, SHO and SOH.