What FANCIES Means
FANCIES is a form of FANCY, which means:
- noun: something many people believe that is false“they have the illusion that I am very wealthy”
- noun: imagination or fantasy; held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination“never had the wildest flights of fancy imagined such magnificence”
- verb: imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind“I can't see him on horseback!”
- verb: have a fancy or particular liking or desire for“She fancied a necklace that she had seen in the jeweler's window”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
FANCIES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as F4 A1 N1 C3 I1 E1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 62 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of FANCIES (2)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In FANCIES
136 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 (7)
5 letter words (25)
4 letter words (50)
3 letter words (38)
2 letter words (16)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.