Unscramble SHIRES and you have 66 words, SHIRES itself among them: it scores 9 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. SHIRES has 3 anagrams here, HISSER, SEHRIS and SHIERS, scoring 9 like SHIRES itself. 10 shorter words score 8, among them SHIRE, HIRES and HEIRS. 6 letters: 2 vowels and 4 consonants.
Looking for hiress, hisers, sshire, srishe, hessri, hessir, rhiess, sheris, hisrse or ressih? They use the same letters as SHIRES, so the words on this page are their answers too.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from SHIRES split into 4 with 6 letters, 13 with 5, 22 with 4, 18 with 3 and 9 with 2.
Keep every letter of SHIRES but one, change that one, and you get:
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The meaning of SHIRES, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept SHIRES, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHIRES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 66) | 52 | 66 | 51 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
14 of the 66 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SEHRIS, ISHES, RHIES, SEHRI, SHIRS, EISH, REHS, SHIR, EHS, ISH, REH, SEIRS and 2 more. 1 of the 66 answers is missing from Words With Friends*: SESH.
These 12 words take every letter of SHIRES plus a single extra one.