What EXCUSES Means
EXCUSES is a form of EXCUSE, which means:
- verb: accept an excuse for“Please excuse my dirty hands”
- verb: grant exemption or release to“Please excuse me from this class”
- noun: a note explaining an absence“he had to get his mother to write an excuse for him”
- noun: a poor example“it was an apology for a meal”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
EXCUSES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 16 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as E1 X8 C3 U1 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 EXCUSES
34 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 (2)
5 letter words (4)
4 letter words (14)
3 letter words (9)
2 letter words (5)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.