IMSHI is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. IMSHI 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 10 points. Words with Friends does accept it.
Which word lists accept IMSHI?
| 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 | Valid |
Word power: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful IMSHI is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for IMSHI
No single letter turns IMSHI into another word.
How IMSHI scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in IMSHI, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| i | 2 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 130,708.
What stands out about IMSHI
- IMSHI begins and ends with the same letter.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does IMSHI mean in Scrabble?
interjection
slanghistorical
Go away! — used as a blunt order to leave or hurry off.
Imshi came into British army slang in Egypt, borrowed from an Arabic word for go, and soldiers of both world wars carried the term home with them into civilian speech. It functioned exactly like scram or beat it, a curt order to leave rather than a polite request. The spelling never settled, and imshy appears just as often in memoirs and letters from the same period.
How IMSHI is used
Informal military slang, now mostly historical; met in memoirs and older fiction rather than current speech.
- The sergeant shouted imshi and the crowd scattered.
- Imshi was borrowed from Arabic, and soldiers carried the word home with them.
- He wrote imshi in his diary whenever he chased off a stray dog.
- The novel has an officer bark imshi at a beggar in the market.
- Imshi and imshy are the same word, spelled two ways.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of IMSHI and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of IMSHI
The 5 tiles of IMSHI in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in IMSHI
Common questions about IMSHI
- Is IMSHI valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts IMSHI, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is IMSHI worth?
- IMSHI is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does IMSHI mean?
- Go away! — used as a blunt order to leave or hurry off.
- What letters can be added to IMSHI?
- No single letter can be added to IMSHI to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of IMSHI:
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