Unscramble SHRIKING and you have 101 words, SHRIKING itself among them: it scores 16 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. SHRIKING has 1 anagram here, SHIRKING, scoring 16 like SHRIKING itself. It has 8 letters, 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from SHRIKING split into 2 with 8 letters, 7 with 7, 8 with 6, 15 with 5, 39 with 4, 23 with 3 and 7 with 2.
KHIS and KISH share the top score of 11 among the 4-letter words from SHRIKING. SIGN, RISK and KING are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of SHRIKING but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with SH · ending in NG · all 8-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with SHIRKING (16 points).
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Scrabble UK accepts SHRIKING, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHRIKING itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 101) | 80 | 101 | 75 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SHRIKING, HIKINGS, GIRKINS, KRISING, GIRKIN, HIRINGS, KISH, SHIRING, HINGS, HING, SIRIH, NISH and 9 more, 21 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: KIS, KI, GIS, SIG and GI, 5 in all.
These 3 words take every letter of SHRIKING plus a single extra one.