SHIR is valid in Collins, not in North America — 7 points
It depends on the list you play by. SHIR 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 7 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept SHIR?
| 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: 44 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SHIR is to know. It scores 7 from 4 tiles, takes 5 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SHIR
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SHIR scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in SHIR, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 9,077.
What does SHIR mean in Scrabble?
verb
technical
To pucker fabric into small, even folds, a variant spelling of shirr.
Sewers shir a section of cloth by running parallel threads through it and drawing them tight, producing the same gathered effect described by the more common spelling shirr. The resulting gathered material can also be called a shir, functioning as a noun for the technique itself.
How SHIR is used
Used in sewing and dressmaking instructions.
- She learned to shir the waistband before adding the elastic.
- The seamstress showed her how to shir the sleeve evenly.
- A neat shir ran across the front of the blouse.
- He asked the tailor to shir the cuffs slightly.
- The dress used a wide shir instead of a zipper.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SHIR and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SHIR
The 4 tiles of SHIR in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with SHIR
Showing 24 of 65 words that begin with SHIR.
Words ending in SHIR
1 words end in SHIR. Useful as a back hook: play SHIR onto a word already on the board.
Words with SHIR inside
Showing 24 of 26 words that contain SHIR somewhere in the middle. Words that start with SHIR are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in SHIR
Common questions about SHIR
- Is SHIR valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and SHIR is not in it.
- How many points is SHIR worth?
- SHIR is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SHIR mean?
- To pucker fabric into small, even folds, a variant spelling of shirr.
- What letters can be added to SHIR?
- SHIR takes 5 hooks: 0 in front and 5 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of SHIR:
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