SHAMUS is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. SHAMUS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SHAMUS?
| 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: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SHAMUS is to know. It scores 11 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SHAMUS
No single letter turns SHAMUS into another word.
How SHAMUS scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in SHAMUS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 2 | 4 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,380 thousand.
What stands out about SHAMUS
- SHAMUS 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 SHAMUS mean in Scrabble?
noun
slangNorth American
A private detective, or sometimes any police officer, in American slang.
Shamus is a piece of hard-boiled slang that spread in crime novels and films of the 1930s and 1940s, where the lone investigator in a trench coat is a stock figure. Its origin is uncertain, though many guess a link to the Irish name Seamus or to the Yiddish shames, meaning caretaker. Today it mostly survives as a deliberately retro word.
How SHAMUS is used
Informal and old-fashioned; typical of detective fiction and of playful imitation of it.
- The shamus lit a cigarette and studied the empty office.
- A tired shamus took the case for a small fee.
- Every shamus in the city knew the widow's name.
- He talked like a shamus from an old black-and-white film.
- The novel opens with a shamus walking out into the rain.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SHAMUS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SHAMUS
The 6 tiles of SHAMUS in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with SHAMUS
1 longer words begin with SHAMUS.
Shorter words from the letters in SHAMUS
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Common questions about SHAMUS
- Is SHAMUS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SHAMUS, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SHAMUS worth?
- SHAMUS is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SHAMUS mean?
- A private detective, or sometimes any police officer, in American slang.
- What letters can be added to SHAMUS?
- No single letter can be added to SHAMUS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of SHAMUS:
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