What SHILLS Means
SHILLS is a form of SHILL, which means:
- noun: a decoy who acts as an enthusiastic customer in order to stimulate the participation of others
- verb: act as a shill“This man shilled and bid for an expensive carpet during the auction in order to drive the price up”
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
SHILLS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 H4 I1 L1 L1 S1.
Words Made From The Letters In SHILLS
18 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.
5 letter words (4)
4 letter words (4)
3 letter words (5)
2 letter words (5)
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