Unscramble SHOTGUN and you have 160 words, SHOTGUN itself among them: it scores 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. SHOTGUN has 3 anagrams here, GUNSHOT, HOGNUTS and NOUGHTS, scoring 11 like SHOTGUN itself. 7 shorter words score 10, among them THONGS, SOUGHT and SHOGUN. The 7 letters split into 2 vowels and 5 consonants. All 7 tiles of SHOTGUN in one turn: 61 in Scrabble (11 + 50), 48 in Words With Friends (13 + 35).
Looking for hustong, nstough, thongus, ghostnu, southgn, hotsung, ghounts, nutshog, shuntgo or tughnos? They use the same letters as SHOTGUN, 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.
Counting the words from SHOTGUN by length: 4 with 7 letters, 8 with 6, 27 with 5, 60 with 4, 43 with 3 and 18 with 2.
Of the 27 5-letter words you get when you unscramble SHOTGUN, 9 score 9 points, the group's best. SOUTH, GHOST and TOUGH are the ones most people know.
11 of 60 4-letter words from SHOTGUN tie at 8 points; none scores more. SONG, THUS and HOST will look familiar.
Keep every letter of SHOTGUN but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with SH · ending in UN · all 7-letter words
SHOTGUN first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
SHOTGUN 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHOTGUN itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 160) | 135 | 160 | 126 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 25 of them: GOSHT, UNSHOT, HOUTS, HOUT, HUSO, THON, STONG, GONS, STOUN, SUGO, TOUNS, GON and 13 more. Words With Friends* skips 9 of them: GOTHS, GOTH, HOS, SHO, SOH, NUGS, NUTSO, GOS and NUG.
With one more tile, the letters of SHOTGUN spell the words below.