What BRISTLE Means
- verb: be in a state of movement or action“The room abounded with screaming children”
- verb: rise up as in fear“The dog's fur bristled”
- noun: a stiff fiber (coarse hair or filament); natural or synthetic
- noun: a stiff hair
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
BRISTLE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 R1 I1 S1 T1 L1 E1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 59 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of BRISTLE (2)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In BRISTLE
181 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 (18)
5 letter words (50)
4 letter words (62)
3 letter words (37)
2 letter words (14)
Next: the full rack page for these seven tiles, and the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.