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SHIRES

6 letters, 9 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What SHIRES Means

SHIRES is a form of SHIRE, which means:

  1. noun: a former administrative district of England; equivalent to a county
  2. noun: British breed of large heavy draft horse

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

SHIRES 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 R1 E1 S1.

Anagrams of SHIRES (3)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In SHIRES

62 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 (13)

4 letter words (22)

3 letter words (18)

2 letter words (9)

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