What SHRILLS Means
SHRILLS is a form of SHRILL, which means:
- adjective: having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones“a shrill whistle”
- adjective: being sharply insistent on being heard“strident demands”
- verb: utter a shrill cry
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
SHRILLS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 10 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 H4 R1 I1 L1 L1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 60 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In SHRILLS
30 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 (7)
4 letter words (9)
3 letter words (7)
2 letter words (5)
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