Unscramble SHLEMIEL and you have 126 words, SHLEMIEL itself among them: it scores 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter words are HELMS, HEMES and HIEMS, 10 points each. It has 8 letters, 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
Looking for hellisem? They use the same letters as SHLEMIEL, 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 SHLEMIEL by length: 1 with 8 letters, 4 with 6, 30 with 5, 47 with 4, 30 with 3 and 14 with 2. None has 7 letters.
HELMS, HEMES and HIEMS share the top score of 10 among the 5-letter words in SHLEMIEL. MILES, HILLS and SHELL are the ones most people know.
47 4-letter words from SHLEMIEL; 7 of them share the top score of 9. SELL, HILL and SEEM are everyday picks.
Trade one tile of SHLEMIEL for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 8-letter words: starting with SH · ending in EL · all 8-letter words
The meaning of SHLEMIEL, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept SHLEMIEL, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHLEMIEL itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 126) | 99 | 125 | 96 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 26 of them: HIEMS, HELES, LEISH, LEMELS, SHEEL, EISH, HELE, LEMEL, LEMES, MESEL, SEMIE, EHS and 14 more. Words With Friends* skips 3 of them: HIMS, MEH and MES. Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends* skip 1 of them: HEMI.
Each word below uses all the letters of SHLEMIEL and one more.