shirking needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 80 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
shirking is the highest-scoring word from shirking, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 80 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in shirking — and it is shirking itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in shirking produces 2 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with risking. For points, the strongest plays are griskin and risking — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling shirking turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hiking, hiring, rising, shrink, and skiing. For points, the strongest play is hiking — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shirking. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kings and rings. For points, the strongest plays are knish 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 shirking produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with inks, king, rigs, ring, risk, sign, and sing. For points, the strongest play is khis — 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 shirking turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with his, ink, rig, sin, 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shirking. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hi, in, 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 shirking 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.
shirking 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 shirking. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
shirking is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shirking unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is shirking, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from shirking 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 shirking produce 80 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.