Unscramble BAKSHISH and you have 94 words, BAKSHISH itself among them: it scores 20 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. SHAIKHS is the best of the shorter words, at 17 points. 8 letters: 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from BAKSHISH split into 1 with 8 letters, 2 with 7, 5 with 6, 14 with 5, 31 with 4, 28 with 3 and 13 with 2.
Trade one tile of BAKSHISH for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 8-letter words: starting with BA · ending in SH · all 8-letter words
What BAKSHISH means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes. BAKSHISH is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAKSHISH itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 94) | 78 | 93 | 68 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 16 of them: HASKS, SHISHA, HASK, KISH, SHASH, SHISH, BHAIS, HISH, BHAI, KAIS, HASS, KAI and 4 more. Words With Friends* skips 10 of them: SHAIKHS, SHAIKH, BISH, SIKAS, SIKA, AHIS, KIS, AHI, AHS and KI. Scrabble UK skips 1 of them: SHIKSA.
With one more tile, the letters of BAKSHISH spell the words below.