Unscramble SHOWBOATED and you have 299 words, SHOWBOATED itself among them: it scores 19 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, BESHADOW and BOWHEADS lead with 17 points. The 10 letters split into 4 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from SHOWBOATED split into 1 with 10 letters, 1 with 9, 4 with 8, 16 with 7, 60 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 37 with 2.
Just 1 of the 9-letter words in SHOWBOATED: BEASTHOOD, for 15 points.
The best of the 7-letter words you get when you unscramble SHOWBOATED is BOWHEAD, 16 points; BOWSHOT on 15 and SOWTHED on 14 follow. BOOSTED is an everyday pick.
Of the 60 6-letter words from SHOWBOATED, 6 score 13 points, the group's best. HOSTED, SHOWED and SHADOW are the ones most people know.
The best of the 5-letter words in SHOWBOATED is HOWBE, 13 points; DHOWS and HAWED on 12 follow. DEATH, HEADS and WHEAT are everyday picks.
DHOW scores highest among the 4-letter words made with SHOWBOATED letters at 11 points, ahead of BAWD and HAWS on 10. SHOW, BOTH and HEAD are the ones most people know.
Among 60 3-letter words you get when you unscramble SHOWBOATED, the top score is 9, reached by 5. HAS, WHO and WEB are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of SHOWBOATED but one, change that one, and you get:
More 10-letter words: starting with SH · ending in ED · all 10-letter words
The meaning of SHOWBOATED, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
SHOWBOATED 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHOWBOATED itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 299) | 238 | 299 | 216 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 61 of them: BEASTHOOD, SOWTHED, WHOOTED, AWHETOS, HAWSED, HOWBE, AWHETO, BEDASH, BOOHED, DEBOSH, SHOWD, THEOWS and 49 more. Words With Friends* skips 22 of them: WHATSO, BOHOS, SABOTED, SHWA, ADBOTS, BOHO, DOSHA, ODAHS, AHED, DOHS, DOSH, ODAH and 10 more.