What DIRECTS Means
DIRECTS is a form of DIRECT, which means:
- verb: command with authority“He directed the children to do their homework”
- verb: intend (something) to move towards a certain goal“He aimed his fists towards his opponent's face”
- adjective: direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short“a direct route”
- adjective: having no intervening persons, agents, conditions“in direct sunlight”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
DIRECTS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as D2 I1 R1 E1 C3 T1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 60 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of DIRECTS (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In DIRECTS
186 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 (17)
5 letter words (54)
4 letter words (63)
3 letter words (38)
2 letter words (14)
Next: the full rack page for these seven tiles, and the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.