What BATTLES Means
BATTLES is a form of BATTLE, which means:
- noun: a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war“Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chattanooga”
- noun: an energetic attempt to achieve something“getting through the crowd was a real struggle”
- verb: battle or contend against in or as if in a battle“The Kurds are combating Iraqi troops in Northern Iraq”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
BATTLES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 A1 T1 T1 L1 E1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 59 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of BATTLES (4)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In BATTLES
185 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 (17)
5 letter words (45)
4 letter words (67)
3 letter words (41)
2 letter words (15)
Next: the full rack page for these seven tiles, and the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.