What CARTELS Means
CARTELS is a form of CARTEL, which means:
- noun: a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service“they set up the trust in the hope of gaining a monopoly”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
CARTELS 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 C3 A1 R1 T1 E1 L1 S1.
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 CARTELS (4)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In CARTELS
275 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 (37)
5 letter words (84)
4 letter words (87)
3 letter words (52)
2 letter words (15)
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.