Unscramble SHAW and you have 17 words, SHAW itself among them: it scores 10 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. 3 anagrams of SHAW are on the page: HAWS, SHWA and WASH, each 10 points. It has 4 letters, 1 vowel and 3 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from SHAW split into 4 with 4 letters, 8 with 3 and 5 with 2.
Keep every letter of SHAW but one, change that one, and you get:
More 4-letter words: starting with SH · ending in W · all 4-letter words
The meaning of SHAW, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept SHAW, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHAW itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 17) | 17 | 17 | 15 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Words With Friends* skips 2 of them: SHWA and AHS.
With one more tile, the letters of SHAW spell the words below.