EMPLOYS Meaning, Scrabble Score and Anagrams

What EMPLOYS Means

EMPLOYS is a form of EMPLOY, which means:

verb: put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose“use your head!”
verb: engage or hire for work“They hired two new secretaries in the department”
noun: the state of being employed or having a job“they are looking for employment”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

EMPLOYS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 14 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as E1 M3 P3 L1 O1 Y4 S1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 64 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In EMPLOYS

160 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.