What BLUSHES Means
BLUSHES is a form of BLUSH, which means:
- noun: a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
- noun: makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks
- verb: turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame“The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by”
- verb: become rosy or reddish“her cheeks blushed in the cold winter air”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
BLUSHES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 L1 U1 S1 H4 E1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 62 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of BLUSHES (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In BLUSHES
74 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 (6)
5 letter words (17)
4 letter words (25)
3 letter words (18)
2 letter words (8)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.