Hidden inside rikishas sit rikishas and shikaris, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 95 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
rikishas and shikaris tie for the highest Scrabble score from rikishas at 15 points. The top 10 of 95 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in rikishas: one comes from rearranging its letters, and rikishas itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are rikishas and shikaris, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in rikishas produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are rikisha, shikari, shikars, and shikras, 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 rikishas turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sharks. For points, the strongest plays are rakish, sharks, shikar, shikra, shiksa, and shirks — 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 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rikishas. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hairs, risks, 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 rikishas produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, asks, hair, kiss, rash, risk, and sirs. 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 rikishas turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ash, ask, ass, has, his, and sir. 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 rikishas. 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 rikishas and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
rikishas 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.
rikishas is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rikishas unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are rikishas and shikaris, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rikishas 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 rikishas produce 95 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.