Unscramble BIRKS to get 26 words. BIRKS itself is a real word: 11 points on a Scrabble board, 12 in Words With Friends. BIRKS has 2 anagrams here, BRIKS and BRISK, scoring 11 like BIRKS itself. The 5 letters split into 1 vowel and 4 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Words from BIRKS by length: 3 with 5 letters, 9 with 4, 10 with 3 and 4 with 2.
Keep every letter of BIRKS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with BI · ending in KS · all 5-letter words
What BIRKS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
BIRKS works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BIRKS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 26) | 23 | 26 | 21 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
3 of the 26 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: BRIKS, BRIK and SIK. 2 of the 26 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: KIS and KI.
These 8 words take every letter of BIRKS plus a single extra one.