259 words come out when you unscramble SHORTAGE, starting with SHORTAGE itself: 12 in Scrabble, 12 in Words With Friends. HOSTAGE, GATHERS and GHERAOS are the best of the shorter words, at 11 points. It has 8 letters, 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
Looking for stagerho, gashtore, haresotg, goshtear or rashtego? They use the same letters as SHORTAGE, so the words on this page are their answers too.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from SHORTAGE split into 1 with 8 letters, 10 with 7, 42 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 26 with 2.
Among 42 6-letter words in SHORTAGE, the top score is 10, reached by 6. HEARTS, GATHER and GATORS are the familiar ones.
60 5-letter words you get when you unscramble SHORTAGE; 10 of them share the top score of 9. OTHER, SHARE and SHORT are everyday picks.
10 of 60 4-letter words from SHORTAGE tie at 8 points; none scores more. HOST, HEAR and SHOT will look familiar.
Among the 3-letter words in SHORTAGE, HAG and HOG tie for first at 7 points. ARE, HAS and GET are everyday picks.
These 6 words have the length of SHORTAGE, with one letter different:
More 8-letter words: starting with SH · ending in GE · all 8-letter words
What SHORTAGE means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. SHORTAGE is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHORTAGE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 259) | 213 | 259 | 189 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 46 of them: ASTHORE, HAROSET, SEAHOG, GATHS, GHEST, GOSHT, TOSHER, ASHET, GATH, HAROS, HEAST, HOAST and 34 more. Words With Friends* skips 24 of them: GHERAOS, GOETH, GOTHS, ARGH, GOTH, HOSER, SHART, SHERO, TOERAGS, GATERS, HAOS, TOERAG and 12 more.
Each word below uses all the letters of SHORTAGE and one more.