GIRSH is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. GIRSH is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept GIRSH?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful GIRSH is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GIRSH
No single letter turns GIRSH into another word.
How GIRSH scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in GIRSH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 1 | 3 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 58,092.
What does GIRSH mean in Scrabble?
noun
historicalregional
A small monetary unit of Saudi Arabia, equal to a fraction of a riyal, also spelled qirsh or gursh.
A girsh functions much like a cent or a penny, the small coin used for prices too low to express in a whole riyal. The unit has close relatives across the Arabian Peninsula and the wider Middle East, where spellings such as qirsh and gursh name essentially the same denomination under Ottoman and later national currencies. Because several spellings compete for the same coin, reference works usually list girsh alongside its variants rather than treating it as a separate unit.
How GIRSH is used
A specialist term for currency, met chiefly in descriptions of Saudi Arabian coinage and in older accounts of Middle Eastern money.
- The old coin was worth a hundred girsh to the riyal.
- Vendors in the market still quoted small prices in girsh.
- The catalog listed a rare silver girsh from the early coinage.
- One girsh bought little more than a handful of dates.
- The museum case displayed a set of girsh coins side by side.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GIRSH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with GIRSH
1 longer words begin with GIRSH.
Shorter words from the letters in GIRSH
Common questions about GIRSH
- Is GIRSH valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts GIRSH, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is GIRSH worth?
- GIRSH is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GIRSH mean?
- A small monetary unit of Saudi Arabia, equal to a fraction of a riyal, also spelled qirsh or gursh.
- What letters can be added to GIRSH?
- No single letter can be added to GIRSH to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of GIRSH:
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