What CRUISES Means
CRUISES is a form of CRUISE, which means:
- verb: drive around aimlessly but ostentatiously and at leisure“She cruised the neighborhood in her new convertible”
- verb: travel at a moderate speed“Please keep your seat belt fastened while the plane is reaching cruising altitude”
- noun: an ocean trip taken for pleasure
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
CRUISES 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 R1 U1 I1 S1 E1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 59 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of CRUISES (2)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In CRUISES
119 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 (13)
5 letter words (31)
4 letter words (41)
3 letter words (27)
2 letter words (7)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.