SHASH is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. SHASH 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 11 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept SHASH?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SHASH is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SHASH
No single letter turns SHASH into another word.
How SHASH scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SHASH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 2 | 4 |
| h | 2 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,394 thousand.
What does SHASH mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaicdialect
The scarf or sash worn as part of a turban, or a sash in general.
Shash is an old spelling used for the long strip of cloth wound into or worn with a turban, and by extension for a sash worn elsewhere on the body. Travel accounts describing dress in the Middle East and South Asia are the main place the noun still turns up, since sash long ago became the ordinary word in everyday English.
How SHASH is used
Archaic and dialect; sash is the word used in ordinary modern English.
- A red shash was wound tightly around his turban.
- The old account described a shash of fine silk.
- Merchants sold shash cloth by the length in the bazaar.
- His grandfather kept a family shash from the old country.
- The costume included a shash tied at the waist.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SHASH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SHASH
The 5 tiles of SHASH in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with SHASH
7 longer words begin with SHASH.
Shorter words from the letters in SHASH
Common questions about SHASH
- Is SHASH valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and SHASH is not in it.
- How many points is SHASH worth?
- SHASH is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SHASH mean?
- The scarf or sash worn as part of a turban, or a sash in general.
- What letters can be added to SHASH?
- No single letter can be added to SHASH to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SHASH:
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