What SHAME Means
- verb: bring shame or dishonor upon“he dishonored his family by committing a serious crime”
- verb: compel through a sense of shame“She shamed him into making amends”
- noun: a painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt
- noun: a state of dishonor“one mistake brought shame to all his family”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
SHAME is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 10 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 H4 A1 M3 E1.
Anagrams of SHAME (2)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In SHAME
51 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
4 letter words (16)
3 letter words (21)
2 letter words (14)
Longer Words Containing SHAME
SHAME appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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