What BELCHES Means
BELCHES is a form of BELCH, which means:
- verb: expel gas from the stomach“Please don't burp at the table”
- verb: become active and spew forth lava and rocks“Vesuvius erupts once in a while”
- noun: a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
BELCHES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 E1 L1 C3 H4 E1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 64 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In BELCHES
59 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 (11)
4 letter words (20)
3 letter words (17)
2 letter words (8)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.