shirkers needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 107 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
shirkers is the highest-scoring word from shirkers, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 107 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in shirkers — and it is shirkers itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in shirkers produces 5 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 shirker, shrieks, and shrikes, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling shirkers turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kisser. For points, 6 words tie at 13 points, including hikers, sheiks and shikse.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shirkers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hikes, hires and rises. For points, the strongest plays are hiker, hikes, sheik, and shirk — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in shirkers produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hers, hike and hire. For points, the strongest plays are hike and khis — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling shirkers turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, his and she. For points, the strongest play is khi — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in shirkers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in shirkers 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.
shirkers 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 shirkers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
shirkers is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shirkers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is shirkers, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from shirkers 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 shirkers produce 107 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.