Unscramble SHAMALS to get 89 words. SHAMALS itself is a real word: 12 points on a Scrabble board, 13 in Words With Friends. Among the shorter answers, 6 reach 11 points, ALMAHS, HALMAS and HAMALS among them. 7 letters: 2 vowels and 5 consonants. Play all 7 tiles of SHAMALS at once for 62 in Scrabble (12 + 50) or 48 in Words With Friends (13 + 35).
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from SHAMALS by length: 1 with 7 letters, 6 with 6, 21 with 5, 29 with 4, 22 with 3 and 10 with 2.
Of the 29 4-letter words you get when you unscramble SHAMALS, 6 score 9 points, the group's best. MASS, SLAM and ALAS are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of SHAMALS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with SH · ending in LS · all 7-letter words
What SHAMALS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
SHAMALS is a Scrabble word (Scrabble US and Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHAMALS itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 89) | 70 | 89 | 63 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SHALMS, SHALM, SHAMA, MAHA, AMLAS, ASSAM, HASS, MALAS, SAMAS, AMLA, MAAS, MALA and 7 more, 19 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: SHAMALS, SHAMAL, LAHS, MASAS, AHS, LAH and MASA, 7 in all.
These 3 words take every letter of SHAMALS plus a single extra one.