What BUOYS Means
BUOYS is a form of BUOY, which means:
- verb: float on the surface of water
- verb: keep afloat“The life vest buoyed him up”
- noun: a float attached by rope to the seabed to mark channels in a harbor or underwater hazards; typically brightly-coloured
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
BUOYS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 U1 O1 Y4 S1.
Anagrams of BUOYS (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In BUOYS
32 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 (7)
3 letter words (15)
2 letter words (10)
Longer Words Containing BUOYS
BUOYS 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.