What FERRETS Means
FERRETS is a form of FERRET, which means:
- verb: hound or harry relentlessly
- verb: hunt with ferrets
- noun: musteline mammal of prairie regions of United States; nearly extinct
- noun: domesticated albino variety of the European polecat bred for hunting rats and rabbits
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
FERRETS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 10 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as F4 E1 R1 R1 E1 T1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 60 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In FERRETS
97 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 (11)
5 letter words (25)
ESTERFEERSFERERFERESFETESFREERFREESFREETFREREFRETSREEFSREESTREFERRESETSEFERSERERSERRESTEERSTERETEERSTERESTERFETERFSTERSETREES
4 letter words (31)
EFTSERESERRSERSTFEERFEESFEETFEREFESTFETEFETSFREEFRETREEFREESREFSREFTRESTRETERETSSEERSERESERFSERRTEERTEESTEFSTERFTREETREFTRES
3 letter words (21)
2 letter words (9)
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