SHOPE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. SHOPE is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 10 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept SHOPE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SHOPE is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SHOPE
No single letter turns SHOPE into another word.
How SHOPE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SHOPE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 49,015.
What does SHOPE mean in Scrabble?
other
archaic
The old past-tense form of shape.
Shope reflects an older pattern in English verbs where the vowel inside the word changed to signal what already happened, similar to how sing once became sang. Medieval writers used shope in a sentence where today's English reaches for shaped, and the spelling still surfaces in old poetry, chronicles and deliberately archaic prose. That vowel-changing pattern faded from most verbs over the centuries, so shape now takes the regular ending seen in shaped rather than any inner change. Coming across shope today usually means reading an older text rather than hearing it spoken.
How SHOPE is used
Archaic; found in older texts and quotation, not in modern spoken English.
- The old chronicle says God shope the earth in six days.
- A potter shope the clay into a simple bowl in the poem.
- The verse reads shope where a modern translation has shaped.
- He copied the archaic form shope from the older manuscript.
- Grammar books list shope among the vowel-changing past tenses.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SHOPE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SHOPE
The 5 tiles of SHOPE in a different order — 1 found.
Words with SHOPE inside
4 words contain SHOPE in the middle. Words that start with SHOPE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in SHOPE
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Common questions about SHOPE
- Is SHOPE valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and SHOPE is not in it.
- How many points is SHOPE worth?
- SHOPE is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SHOPE mean?
- The old past-tense form of shape.
- What letters can be added to SHOPE?
- No single letter can be added to SHOPE to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SHOPE:
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