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ESCAPES

7 letters, 11 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What ESCAPES Means

ESCAPES is a form of ESCAPE, which means:

  1. noun: the act of escaping physically“he made his escape from the mental hospital”
  2. noun: an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy“romantic novels were her escape from the stress of daily life”
  3. verb: run away from confinement“The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison”
  4. verb: fail to experience“Fortunately, I missed the hurricane”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

ESCAPES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as E1 S1 C3 A1 P3 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.

Words Made From The Letters In ESCAPES

89 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 (8)

5 letter words (19)

4 letter words (34)

3 letter words (21)

2 letter words (7)

Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.