SHIST is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. SHIST is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SHIST?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SHIST is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SHIST
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
shistsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SHIST scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SHIST, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 2 | 4 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 116,184.
What stands out about SHIST
- The same 5 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does SHIST mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A variant spelling of schist, a metamorphic rock that splits easily into thin, parallel layers because of aligned platy minerals such as mica.
Geologists classify shist among the foliated metamorphic rocks, formed when heat and pressure deep underground line up flat, sheet-like minerals into distinct bands. The layered structure lets a block of shist be split by hand along its natural planes, unlike a more solid, uniform rock such as granite. Older mining and geological writing sometimes used shist where a modern text would print schist, and both spellings point to the same rock. Because schist has become the standard spelling in current geology, shist now appears mainly in older documents and dictionaries that record it as a recognised variant.
How SHIST is used
Rare technical variant of schist, met mainly in older geological writing and dictionaries rather than in current scientific use.
- The quarry face showed thick bands of grey shist.
- Miners cut through a seam of shist on their way to the ore.
- The old geology text used shist where later editions printed schist.
- A sample of shist split cleanly along its mineral layers.
- Sunlight caught the mica in the exposed shist.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SHIST and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SHIST
The 5 tiles of SHIST in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with SHIST
1 longer words begin with SHIST.
Words ending in SHIST
1 words end in SHIST. Useful as a back hook: play SHIST onto a word already on the board.
Words with SHIST inside
4 words contain SHIST in the middle. Words that start with SHIST are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in SHIST
Common questions about SHIST
- Is SHIST valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SHIST, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SHIST worth?
- SHIST is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SHIST mean?
- A variant spelling of schist, a metamorphic rock that splits easily into thin, parallel layers because of aligned platy minerals such as mica.
- What letters can be added to SHIST?
- SHIST takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SHIST:
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