What EXCISES Means
EXCISES is a form of EXCISE, which means:
- verb: remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line“Please strike this remark from the record”
- verb: levy an excise tax on
- noun: a tax that is measured by the amount of business done (not on property or income from real estate)
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
EXCISES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 16 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as E1 X8 C3 I1 S1 E1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 66 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In EXCISES
41 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 (3)
5 letter words (7)
4 letter words (14)
3 letter words (11)
2 letter words (6)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.