shirker needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 71 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
shirker is the highest-scoring word from shirker, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 71 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in shirker — and it is shirker itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling shirker turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hikers, shriek, and shrike, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shirker. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hikes, hires, and shier. For points, the strongest plays are hiker, hikes, sheik, and shirk — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in shirker produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hers, hike, hire, rise, and risk. For points, the strongest plays are hike and khis — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling shirker turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, his, she, sir, and ski. For points, the strongest play is khi — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shirker. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, is, and sh. For points, the strongest play is ki — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in shirker and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
shirker is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for shirker. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
shirker is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shirker unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is shirker, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from shirker earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in shirker produce 71 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.