What COCKLES Means
COCKLES is a form of COCKLE, which means:
- noun: common edible European bivalve
- noun: common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs
- verb: stir up (water) so as to form ripples
- verb: to gather something into small wrinkles or folds“She puckered her lips”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
COCKLES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 15 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as C3 O1 C3 K5 L1 E1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 65 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In COCKLES
63 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 (4)
5 letter words (12)
4 letter words (22)
3 letter words (18)
2 letter words (7)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.