FORAGES Meaning, Scrabble Score and Anagrams

What FORAGES Means

FORAGES is a form of FORAGE, which means:

noun: bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle
noun: the act of searching for food and provisions
verb: collect or look around for (food)
verb: wander and feed“The animals forage in the woods”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

FORAGES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as F4 O1 R1 A1 G2 E1 S1.

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 FORAGES

178 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.