What ELVES Means
- noun: an acronym for emissions of light and very low frequency perturbations due to electromagnetic pulse sources; extremely bright extremely short (less than a msec) electrical flashes forming a huge ring (up to 400 km diameter) in the ionosphere
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
ELVES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as E1 L1 V4 E1 S1.
Anagrams of ELVES (2)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In ELVES
22 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.
4 letter words (10)
3 letter words (9)
2 letter words (3)
Longer Words Containing ELVES
ELVES appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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