How many points in Scrabble is shill worth? shill how many points in Words With Friends? What does shill mean? Get all these answers on this page.
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Is shill a Scrabble word?
Yes. The word shill is a Scrabble US word. The word shill is worth 8 points in Scrabble:
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Is shill a Scrabble UK word?
Yes. The word shill is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:
S1H4I1L1L1
Is shill a Words With Friends word?
Yes. The word shill is a Words With Friends word. The word shill is worth 9 points in Words With Friends (WWF):
S1H3I1L2L2
You can make 14 words from shill according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
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Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word shill. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in shill.
Unknown; attested as verb 1914, as noun 1916. Perhaps an abbreviation of shillaber, attested 1913. The word entered English via carny, originally denoting a carnival worker who pretends to be a member of the audience in an attempt to elicit interest in an attraction.
Speculatively an extended form of German Schieber (“black marketeer, profiteer”) via *shi-la-ber.
There are some suggestions that it originates in the surname Shilaber or Shillibeer, especially George Shillibeer, but proposed origins are dubious as the word is first attested in North America in the 20th century, while proposed models are 19th century British.
American humorist Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber (1814–1890) was known to write under the name Mrs. Ruth Partington to lend credibility to some of his ideas. This is one more possible origin of the word, although there is no specific evidence supporting a connection.
shill (plural shills)
shill (third-person singular simple present shills, present participle shilling, simple past and past participle shilled)