What DREDGES Means
DREDGES is a form of DREDGE, which means:
- verb: cover before cooking“dredge the chicken in flour before frying it”
- verb: search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost
- noun: a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
DREDGES 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 R1 E1 D2 G2 E1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 60 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In DREDGES
79 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 (5)
5 letter words (24)
DEEDSDEERSDEREDDERESDREEDDREESDREGSEDGEDEDGEREDGESEGERSGERESGREEDGREESGRESEREDDSREDEDREDESREEDSREGESSEDERSEDGESEREDSERGE
4 letter words (27)
DEEDDEERDEESDEGSDEREDREEDREGEDGEEGEREREDERESERGSGEDSGEEDGEESGEREGERSGREEREDDREDEREDSREEDREESREGSSEEDSEERSERE
3 letter words (17)
2 letter words (6)
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