What CLOSE Means
- verb: move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut“Close the door”
- verb: become closed“The windows closed with a loud bang”
- adjective: at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other“close to noon”
- adjective: close in relevance or relationship“a close family”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
CLOSE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as C3 L1 O1 S1 E1.
Anagrams of CLOSE (2)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In CLOSE
30 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 (6)
Longer Words Containing CLOSE
CLOSE appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
CLOSEABLECLOSEDCLOSEDOWNCLOSEDOWNSCLOSEHEADCLOSEHEADSCLOSELYCLOSENESSCLOSEOUTCLOSEOUTSCLOSERCLOSERSCLOSESCLOSESTCLOSESTOOLCLOSETCLOSETEDCLOSETFULCLOSETFULSCLOSETINGCLOSETSCLOSEUPCLOSEUPSCYCLOSESDISCLOSEDISCLOSEDDISCLOSERDISCLOSERSDISCLOSESDISENCLOSEDISINCLOSEECLOSEECLOSEDECLOSESENCLOSEENCLOSEDENCLOSERENCLOSERSENCLOSESFORECLOSE
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.