Unscramble NHWSO: Letters, Definition, and Answer
NHWSO unscrambles to SHOWN, a 5-letter verb from Jumble Answers Today: October 23, 2026. No letter repeats.
How to crack NHWSO
SNOW eats four tiles and leaves H stranded — the trap that burns a minute on this rack. OWNS and NOWS pull the same way and fail on leftovers. Put SH up front the way show and ship do, then OWN at the end: SH, OWN. Once H sits inside the opening chunk instead of as trash, SHOWN is the only everyday past form that clears every tile.
Letter map: NHWSO → SHOWN
| Position in SHOWN | Letter | Tile in NHWSO | Circled for the caption |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | S | 4 | — |
| 2 | H | 2 | Yes |
| 3 | O | 5 | — |
| 4 | W | 3 | Yes |
| 5 | N | 1 | — |
What does SHOWN mean?
SHOWN (verb): past participle of show; made visible or put on display. Example: “The tickets must be shown at the gate before anyone boards.”
Similar: displayed, presented, exhibited, revealed. Opposite: hidden, concealed.
Did you know? "Shown" is the usual past participle of show in American English; "showed" can still appear as a past participle in some dialects, but dictionaries treat shown as the standard form.
Using SHOWN in a sentence
Shown is the past participle of show: a film is shown, a ticket is shown at the door, results are shown on a screen. Shown up means appeared or been exposed; shown around means given a tour. Speakers also say as shown above in instructions. Displayed and presented cover similar ground; hidden and concealed push the other way. Keep shown separate from shone as a spelling: shone is the past of shine (light), shown is the past of show (present). There is no tidy single antonym for the participle; not shown or withheld is how people mark the opposite.
How SHOWN fits the puzzle
SHOWN circles H and W. Those two tiles open the HWRPCESIS bank and become the H in SHIP plus the W in CREW, so this short five-letter answer puts both ends of the ocean-liner punchline on the board early.
Its circled letters feed the caption answer, "CREW S" SHIP.
Other words in NHWSO
22 shorter dictionary words can be made from a subset of these tiles:
HONSHOWSNOSHNOWSOWNSSHOWSNOWSOWNWONSHONHOWNOHNOSNOWOHSONSOWNSONSOWWHOWONWOS
The rest of this puzzle
- TYRPC → CRYPT (an underground vault, especially a burial chamber beneath a church)
- ETCPAC → ACCEPT (to receive something with approval, or to admit someone to a group)
- ISRCSI → CRISIS (a decisive turning point, or an unstable situation facing sudden change)
- HWRPCESIS → "CREW S" SHIP (a twist on crew's ship)
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