What BARRAGE Means
- noun: the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written)“a barrage of questions”
- noun: the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target“they laid down a barrage in front of the advancing troops”
- verb: address with continuously or persistently, as if with a barrage“The speaker was barraged by an angry audience”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
BARRAGE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 A1 R1 R1 A1 G2 E1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 60 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of BARRAGE (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In BARRAGE
64 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.
5 letter words (12)
4 letter words (20)
3 letter words (22)
2 letter words (10)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.