Unscramble MERKINS and you have 159 words, MERKINS itself among them: it scores 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. It has 7 letters, 2 vowels and 5 consonants. MERKINS as a single 7-tile play makes 63 in Scrabble, 13 plus the 50 bonus, and 50 in Words With Friends (15 + 35).
Looking for skimner, smirken, srimekn, srimken or skrimen? They use the same letters as MERKINS, so the words on this page are their answers too.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Words from MERKINS by length: 1 with 7 letters, 9 with 6, 39 with 5, 59 with 4, 39 with 3 and 12 with 2.
Among 39 5-letter words in MERKINS, the top score is 11, reached by 8. MINES, RESIN and MIKES are the familiar ones.
59 4-letter words from MERKINS; 5 of them share the top score of 10. RISK, SKIN and MIKE are everyday picks.
These 6 words have the length of MERKINS, with one letter different:
More 7-letter words: starting with ME · ending in NS · all 7-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with KERMIS and MINKES (12 points each).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
In Scrabble, yes: MERKINS is playable in Scrabble UK. It is not in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| MERKINS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 159) | 121 | 159 | 117 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 38 of them: MERKINS, MERKIN, MISKEN, SMEIK, NERKS, REIKS, EIKS, ERKS, NEKS, NERK, REIK, RENK and 26 more. Words With Friends* skips 4 of them: RESKIN, KIS, KI and MES.
These 4 words take every letter of MERKINS plus a single extra one.