ashriek

Not valid in Scrabble

It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
13
Letters
7

Definition of ashriek

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Shrieking; filled (with shrieking people, animals, etc.).
    “For I have swept along To foam ashriek with gulls, and rowed behind Brown oarsmen swinging to an ocean song”
    “She took me through the apartment, through all the ten rooms—each with a chandelier ashriek, and ourselves mirrored on the windows—which I had never seen.”
    “1997, Ted Hughes (translator), excerpt from Part 4 of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in Daniel Weissbort (ed.), Selected Translations, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, p. 168, It sounded like a scythe a-shriek on a grind-stone!”
    “[…] the ’tween dining area […] was ashriek with excited girls”

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Etymology

From a- + shriek.

Anagrams of ashriek

3 plays · some not in Scrabble

Best play shakier 14 points

Words you can make from ashriek

155 playable · top: SHAKIER (14 pts)

Best play shakier 14 points

6-letter words

10 words

5-letter words

33 words

4-letter words

52 words

3-letter words

42 words

2-letter words

17 words

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