What BOOKIES Means
BOOKIES is a form of BOOKIE, which means:
- noun: a gambler who accepts and pays off bets (especially on horse races)
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
BOOKIES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 O1 O1 K5 I1 E1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 63 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of BOOKIES (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In BOOKIES
87 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 (2)
5 letter words (10)
4 letter words (30)
3 letter words (30)
2 letter words (15)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.