shakuhachi
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 25
- Words With Friends
- 24
- Letters
- 10
Definition of shakuhachi
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A Japanese flute which is tuned to a pentatonic scale and is end-blown like a recorder instead of being held transversely like the Western transverse flute.
“Sampled shakuhachi sounds on the E-mu Emulator II were heard in the 1980s in TV ads and also appeared prominently in popular songs, as in the opening section of Peter Gabriel's 1986 “Sledgehammer,”[…]”
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Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 尺八 (しゃくはち, shakuhachi), from 尺 (tsyhek, an archaic measure of length approximately equal to 30 centimeters) + 八 (peat, “eight”), corresponding to the standard length of the instrument (approximately 55 centimeters).
Words you can make from shakuhachi
101 playable · top: SHAIKH (16 pts)
Best play shaikh 16 points6-letter words
3 words5-letter words
17 words4-letter words
37 words- HACK 13 pts
- HICK 13 pts
- HUCK 13 pts
- SHHH 13 pts
- HAIK 11 pts
- HAKU 11 pts
- HUSK 11 pts
- KHIS 11 pts
- SUKH 11 pts
- CASK 10 pts
- CUSK 10 pts
- HAHA 10 pts
- HAHS 10 pts
- HASH 10 pts
- HUSH 10 pts
- ICKS 10 pts
- SACK 10 pts
- SHAH 10 pts
- SICK 10 pts
- SUCK 10 pts
- CASH 9 pts
- CHAI 9 pts
- CHIA 9 pts
- CHIS 9 pts
- HUIC 9 pts
- ICHS 9 pts
- SUCH 9 pts
- AUKS 8 pts
- KAAS 8 pts
- SAKI 8 pts
- SIKA 8 pts
- SKUA 8 pts
- AAHS 7 pts
- AHIS 7 pts
- ACAI 6 pts
- ASCI 6 pts
- CASA 6 pts
3-letter words
30 words- KHI 10 pts
- ACK 9 pts
- HAH 9 pts
- HUH 9 pts
- ICK 9 pts
- SHH 9 pts
- CHI 8 pts
- HIC 8 pts
- ICH 8 pts
- ASK 7 pts
- AUK 7 pts
- KAS 7 pts
- KIS 7 pts
- SKA 7 pts
- SKI 7 pts
- SUK 7 pts
- AAH 6 pts
- AHA 6 pts
- AHI 6 pts
- AHS 6 pts
- ASH 6 pts
- HAS 6 pts
- HIS 6 pts
- SHA 6 pts
- CIS 5 pts
- SAC 5 pts
- SIC 5 pts
- AAS 3 pts
- AIS 3 pts
- SAU 3 pts
2-letter words
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