What BIDES Means
BIDES is a form of BID, which means:
- verb: propose a payment“The Swiss dealer offered $2 million for the painting”
- verb: invoke upon“wish you a nice evening”
- noun: an authoritative direction or instruction to do something
- noun: an attempt to get something“they made a futile play for power”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
BIDES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 I1 D2 E1 S1.
Anagrams of BIDES (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In BIDES
35 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.
4 letter words (11)
3 letter words (15)
2 letter words (9)
Longer Words Containing BIDES
BIDES appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.