What ESSAY Means
- noun: an analytic or interpretive literary composition
- noun: a tentative attempt
- verb: make an effort or attempt“He tried to shake off his fears”
- verb: put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to“This approach has been tried with good results”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
ESSAY 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 S1 S1 A1 Y4.
Anagrams of ESSAY (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In ESSAY
27 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 (8)
3 letter words (12)
2 letter words (7)
Longer Words Containing ESSAY
ESSAY appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.