What CHOKES Means
CHOKES is a form of CHOKE, which means:
- verb: breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion“She choked with emotion when she spoke about her deceased husband”
- verb: be too tight; rub or press“This neckband is choking the cat”
- noun: a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current
- noun: a valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine
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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
CHOKES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 15 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as C3 H4 O1 K5 E1 S1.
Words Made From The Letters In CHOKES
60 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.
5 letter words (10)
4 letter words (20)
3 letter words (19)
2 letter words (11)
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