Hidden inside rikisha sit rikisha and shikari, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 70 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
rikisha and shikari tie for the highest Scrabble score from rikisha at 14 points. The top 10 of 70 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in rikisha: one comes from rearranging its letters, and rikisha itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are rikisha and shikari, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling rikisha turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are rakish, shikar, and shikra, 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 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rikisha. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hairs and shark. For points, the strongest plays are haiks, harks, shark, 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 rikisha produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, hair, rash, and risk. For points, the strongest plays are haik, hark, 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 rikisha turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ash, ask, has, his, 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rikisha. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, ha, hi, is, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ki — each 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 rikisha 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.
rikisha 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.
rikisha is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rikisha unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are rikisha and shikari, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rikisha 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 rikisha produce 70 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.