What FLAILED Means
FLAILED is a form of FLAIL, which means:
- verb: give a thrashing to; beat hard
- verb: move like a flail; thresh about“Her arms were flailing”
- noun: an implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end; used in manual threshing
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
FLAILED is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as F4 L1 A1 I1 L1 E1 D2.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 61 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In FLAILED
103 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 (6)
5 letter words (13)
4 letter words (38)
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3 letter words (29)
2 letter words (17)
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