What AFFECTS Means
AFFECTS is a form of AFFECT, which means:
- verb: have an effect upon“Will the new rules affect me?”
- verb: act physically on; have an effect upon“the medicine affects my heart rate”
- noun: the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
AFFECTS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 15 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as A1 F4 F4 E1 C3 T1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 65 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In AFFECTS
100 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 (18)
4 letter words (37)
ACESACTSAESCATESCAFECAFFCASECASTCATECATSCEASEASTEATSEFFSEFTSETASFACEFACTFASTFATEFATSFEATFESTFETAFETSSAFESAFTSATESEATSECTSETATACETAESTEASTECSTEFFTEFS
3 letter words (31)
2 letter words (12)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.