What BORES Means
BORES is a form of BORE, which means:
- noun: a person who evokes boredom
- noun: a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)
- verb: cause to be bored
- verb: make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool“don't drill here, there's a gas pipe”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
BORES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 O1 R1 E1 S1.
Anagrams of BORES (3)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In BORES
44 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 (15)
3 letter words (19)
2 letter words (10)
Longer Words Containing BORES
BORES appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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