What BENCHES Means
BENCHES is a form of BENCH, which means:
- noun: a long seat for more than one person
- noun: a level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below)
- verb: take out of a game; of players
- verb: exhibit on a bench“bench the poodles at the dog show”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
BENCHES 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 N1 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 BENCHES
57 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 (1)
5 letter words (10)
4 letter words (19)
3 letter words (18)
2 letter words (9)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.