For countable amenable finitely generated torsion-free G, we prove inequalities relating μ(v) and μ(w) for any measure of maximal entropy μ on a G-subshift and any words v, w where the extender set of v is contained in the extender set of w. Our main results are two generalizations of a theorem of Meyerovitch (Ergodic Theory Dynam. Systems 33 (2013) 934-953): the first applies to all such v, w when G = Z, and the second to v, w with the same shape for any G. As a consequence of our results we give new and simpler proofs of several facts about synchronized subshifts (including a result from Thomsen, Ergodic Theory Dynam. Systems 26 (2006) 1235-1256) and we answer a question of Climenhaga.Theorem 3.11. Let X be a Z-subshift with positive topological entropy, μ an MME of X, and w, v ∈ L(X). If E X (v) ⊆ E X (w), then μ(v) μ(w)e htop(X) (|w|−|v|) .