What BEETLES Means
BEETLES is a form of BEETLE, which means:
- verb: be suspended over or hang over“This huge rock beetles over the edge of the town”
- verb: fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle“He beetled up the staircase”
- noun: insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings
- noun: a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing
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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
BEETLES 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 E1 E1 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.
Words Made From The Letters In BEETLES
68 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 (3)
5 letter words (17)
4 letter words (24)
3 letter words (17)
2 letter words (7)
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