What APPLIES Means
APPLIES is a form of APPLY, which means:
- verb: put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose“use your head!”
- verb: be pertinent or relevant or applicable“The same laws apply to you!”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
APPLIES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as A1 P3 P3 L1 I1 E1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 61 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of APPLIES (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In APPLIES
157 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 (10)
5 letter words (35)
4 letter words (58)
3 letter words (40)
2 letter words (14)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.