IMSHY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 13 points
It depends on the list you play by. IMSHY 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 13 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept IMSHY?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful IMSHY is to know. It scores 13 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for IMSHY
No single letter turns IMSHY into another word.
How IMSHY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in IMSHY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| i | 1 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 261,415.
What does IMSHY mean in Scrabble?
interjection
slanghistorical
Go away!; a command to leave, used especially by British troops in the Middle East.
Imshy comes from the Arabic imshi, meaning go, and British soldiers picked it up during campaigns in Egypt and the wider Middle East in the first half of the twentieth century. It entered military slang as a blunt, dismissive order to leave at once, often shouted rather than spoken. The word is also written imshi, and both spellings appear in accounts of wartime English. Outside that historical military context, imshy is rarely heard today.
How IMSHY is used
Historical military slang, mainly from accounts of British forces in the Middle East; not part of everyday modern speech.
- The sergeant shouted imshy at the stray dogs near the camp.
- Old war memoirs use imshy to mean simply get out of here.
- He picked up the word imshy while serving overseas years ago.
- Imshy, the soldier said, waving the crowd back from the gate.
- The phrase book from the period lists imshy under useful commands.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of IMSHY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in IMSHY
Common questions about IMSHY
- Is IMSHY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and IMSHY is not in it.
- How many points is IMSHY worth?
- IMSHY is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does IMSHY mean?
- Go away!; a command to leave, used especially by British troops in the Middle East.
- What letters can be added to IMSHY?
- No single letter can be added to IMSHY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of IMSHY:
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