Unscramble SHEARS and you have 76 words, SHEARS itself among them: it scores 9 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. 2 anagrams of SHEARS are on the page: RASHES and SHARES, each 9 points. The best shorter words score 8: 7 of them, SHARE, ASHES and SHEAR included. 6 letters: 2 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
By length, the words from SHEARS split into 3 with 6 letters, 12 with 5, 24 with 4, 25 with 3 and 12 with 2.
Keep every letter of SHEARS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 6-letter words: starting with SH · ending in RS · all 6-letter words
The meaning of SHEARS, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
SHEARS works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHEARS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 76) | 65 | 76 | 63 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: HASS, RAHS, REHS, EHS, REH, RASSE, SASER, SARS, EAS, SAR and EA, 11 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: SESH and AHS, 2 in all.
These 12 words take every letter of SHEARS plus a single extra one.