What SHORTER Means
SHORTER is a form of SHORT, which means:
- adjective: primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration“a short life”
- adjective: (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length“short skirts”
- adverb: clean across“the car's axle snapped short”
- adverb: without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold“he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash”
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
SHORTER 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 O1 R1 T1 E1 R1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 60 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of SHORTER (2)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In SHORTER
134 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.
6 letter words (13)
5 letter words (26)
4 letter words (45)
3 letter words (34)
2 letter words (16)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.