What EMPIRES Means
EMPIRES is a form of EMPIRE, which means:
- noun: the domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised
- noun: a group of countries under a single authority“the British created a great empire”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
EMPIRES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as E1 M3 P3 I1 R1 E1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 61 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of EMPIRES (7)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In EMPIRES
143 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 (34)
4 letter words (51)
3 letter words (34)
2 letter words (11)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.