What CLAPS Means
CLAPS is a form of CLAP, which means:
- verb: put quickly or forcibly“The judge clapped him in jail”
- verb: cause to strike the air in flight“The big bird clapped its wings”
- noun: a sudden very loud noise
- noun: a common venereal disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae; symptoms are painful urination and pain around the urethra
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
CLAPS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as C3 L1 A1 P3 S1.
Anagrams of CLAPS (3)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In CLAPS
28 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 (10)
3 letter words (14)
2 letter words (4)
Longer Words Containing CLAPS
CLAPS 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.