What HIJACKS Means
HIJACKS is a form of HIJACK, which means:
- verb: take arbitrarily or by force“The Cubans commandeered the plane and flew it to Miami”
- verb: seize control of“they hijacked the judicial process”
- noun: seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
HIJACKS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 23 in Scrabble and 26 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as H4 I1 J8 A1 C3 K5 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 73 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In HIJACKS
80 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
6 letter words (2)
5 letter words (11)
4 letter words (26)
AHISASCICASHCASKCHAICHASCHIACHIKCHISHACKHAIKHAJIHASKHICKICHSJACKJAKSKAISKHISKISHSACKSAICSAKISICHSICKSIKA
3 letter words (29)
2 letter words (12)
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