What CROQUET Means
- verb: drive away by hitting with one's ball“croquet the opponent's ball”
- verb: play a game in which players hit a wooden ball through a series of hoops
- noun: a game in which players hit a wooden ball through a series of hoops; the winner is the first to traverse all the hoops and hit a peg
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
CROQUET is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 18 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as C3 R1 O1 Q10 U1 E1 T1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 68 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of CROQUET (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In CROQUET
78 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 (6)
5 letter words (16)
4 letter words (18)
3 letter words (28)
2 letter words (10)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.