Unscramble SHIKRA and you have 82 words, SHIKRA itself among them: it scores 13 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. SHIKRA has 2 anagrams here, RAKISH and SHIKAR, scoring 13 like SHIKRA itself. 6 letters: 2 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from SHIKRA by length: 3 with 6 letters, 9 with 5, 30 with 4, 29 with 3 and 11 with 2.
Keep every letter of SHIKRA but one, change that one, and you get:
More 6-letter words: starting with SH · ending in RA · all 6-letter words
The meaning of SHIKRA, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
SHIKRA is a Scrabble word (Scrabble US and Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHIKRA itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 82) | 66 | 82 | 55 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: HASK, KISH, RAIKS, ARISH, KAIS, KSAR, RAIK, KAI, RAHS, SHIR, SIK, ISH and 4 more, 16 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: SHIKRA, KRAIS, KRAI, SIKA, AHIS, KIS, AHI, AHS, KI, RAIS and RAI, 11 in all.
Each word below uses all the letters of SHIKRA and one more.