Unscramble SHAPINGS and you have 200 words, SHAPINGS itself among them: it scores 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. SHAPINGS has 1 anagram here, PHASINGS, scoring 14 like SHAPINGS itself. The best shorter words score 13: 4 of them, SHAPING, PHASING and HASPING included. It has 8 letters, 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from SHAPINGS split into 2 with 8 letters, 7 with 7, 14 with 6, 50 with 5, 60 with 4, 52 with 3 and 15 with 2.
PHANG tops the 5-letter words from SHAPINGS at 11 points; next come APHIS and APISH on 10. SHIPS, SIGNS and GAINS will look familiar.
Of the 60 4-letter words from SHAPINGS, 8 score 9 points, the group's best. SHIP, PASS and PAIN are the ones most people know.
4 of 52 3-letter words in SHAPINGS tie at 8 points; none scores more. HAS, GAS and ASS will look familiar.
Trade one tile of SHAPINGS for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 8-letter words: starting with SH · ending in GS · all 8-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by HASPING, PASHING, PHASING and SHAPING (13 points each).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
In Scrabble, yes: SHAPINGS is playable in Scrabble UK. It is not in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHAPINGS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 200) | 160 | 200 | 150 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 40 of them: PHASINGS, SHAPINGS, PHANGS, PHANG, HANGIS, SHAPS, SPAINGS, ANIGH, HANGI, HINGS, NASHIS, PAHS and 28 more. Words With Friends* skips 10 of them: AHING, AHIS, AHI, AHS, SIGNA, AGS, GIS, SIG, GI and SAN.
These 4 words take every letter of SHAPINGS plus a single extra one.