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GALES

5 letters, 6 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What GALES Means

GALES is a form of GAL, which means:

  1. noun: United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters
  2. noun: a unit of gravitational acceleration equal to one centimeter per second per second (named after Galileo)

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

GALES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as G2 A1 L1 E1 S1.

Anagrams of GALES (1)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In GALES

46 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.

4 letter words (17)

3 letter words (21)

2 letter words (8)

Longer Words Containing GALES

GALES appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.

Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.