Unscramble SHORTEN and you have 221 words, SHORTEN itself among them: it scores 10 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. It has 3 anagrams, each with the same 10 points: HORNETS, THRENOS and THRONES. 17 shorter words score 9, among them HONEST, THRONE and HORNET. It has 7 letters, 2 vowels and 5 consonants. Play all 7 tiles of SHORTEN at once for 60 in Scrabble (10 + 50) or 45 in Words With Friends (10 + 35).
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Words from SHORTEN by length: 4 with 7 letters, 25 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 52 with 3 and 20 with 2.
17 of 25 6-letter words made with SHORTEN letters tie at 9 points; none scores more. HONEST, THRONE and TENSOR will look familiar.
60 5-letter words from SHORTEN; 31 of them share the top score of 8. OTHER, STORE and NORTH are everyday picks.
Among 60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble SHORTEN, the top score is 7, reached by 35. THEN, NOTE and REST are the familiar ones.
52 3-letter words you get when you unscramble SHORTEN; 20 of them share the top score of 6. NOT, ONE and SET are everyday picks.
Trade one tile of SHORTEN for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 7-letter words: starting with SH · ending in EN · all 7-letter words
SHORTEN first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. SHORTEN 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHORTEN itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 221) | 184 | 221 | 173 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 37 of them: THRENOS, RHONES, TOSHER, HOTEN, RHONE, ROHES, TEHRS, HORE, HORS, HOTE, NESH, REHS and 25 more. Words With Friends* skips 11 of them: HOSER, SHERO, SHEN, HOS, SHO, SOH, RENOS, RENO, EST, TES and TE.
With one more tile, the letters of SHORTEN spell the words below.