FIQHS is valid in Collins, not in North America — 20 points
It depends on the list you play by. FIQHS is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 20 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept FIQHS?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 44 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FIQHS is to know. It scores 20 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FIQHS
No single letter turns FIQHS into another word.
How FIQHS scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in FIQHS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| q | 1 | 1 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 522,830.
What stands out about FIQHS
- FIQHS takes a Q without a U — one of only 93 words in our lists that do. That is the cheapest way to get rid of the ten-point tile.
- FIQHS scores 20 points, more than twice the average for a 5-letter word (9.2).
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does FIQHS mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
The various schools or systems of Islamic religious law, each with its own methods of interpreting the Sharia.
Fiqh names the human effort to work out detailed religious law from the Quran and other sources, and the plural fiqhs refers to the different schools that have grown up doing this work, each following its own scholars and methods of reasoning. Referring to the fiqhs in the plural signals that Islamic law is not a single fixed code but a family of related legal traditions.
How FIQHS is used
Technical term from Islamic studies, used chiefly in academic and religious writing about comparative schools of law.
- The course compared the major fiqhs taught in different regions.
- Scholars debated how the fiqhs differ on questions of inheritance.
- The book surveys the historical development of the classical fiqhs.
- Students learned to distinguish between the main Sunni fiqhs.
- Each mosque in the city followed one of several local fiqhs.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FIQHS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in FIQHS
Common questions about FIQHS
- Is FIQHS valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and FIQHS is not in it.
- How many points is FIQHS worth?
- FIQHS is worth 20 points in Scrabble and 19 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FIQHS mean?
- The various schools or systems of Islamic religious law, each with its own methods of interpreting the Sharia.
- What letters can be added to FIQHS?
- No single letter can be added to FIQHS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of FIQHS:
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