What BACKS Means
BACKS is a form of BACK, which means:
- verb: be behind; approve of“He plumped for the Labor Party”
- verb: travel backward“back into the driveway”
- noun: the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine“his back was nicely tanned”
- noun: the side that goes last or is not normally seen“he wrote the date on the back of the photograph”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
BACKS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 A1 C3 K5 S1.
Words Made From The Letters In BACKS
22 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.
4 letter words (8)
3 letter words (10)
2 letter words (4)
Longer Words Containing BACKS
BACKS appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
BACKSAWBACKSAWSBACKSEATBACKSEATSBACKSETBACKSETSBACKSEYBACKSEYSBACKSHEESHBACKSHISHBACKSHOREBACKSHORESBACKSIDEBACKSIDESBACKSIGHTBACKSIGHTSBACKSLAPBACKSLAPSBACKSLASHBACKSLIDBACKSLIDEBACKSLIDERBACKSLIDESBACKSPACEBACKSPACEDBACKSPACERBACKSPACESBACKSPEERBACKSPEERSBACKSPEIRBACKSPEIRSBACKSPINBACKSPINSBACKSPLASHBACKSTABBACKSTABSBACKSTAGEBACKSTAGESBACKSTAIRBACKSTAIRS
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