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GLIDES

6 letters, 8 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What GLIDES Means

GLIDES is a form of GLIDE, which means:

  1. noun: a vowellike sound that serves as a consonant
  2. noun: the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it“his slide didn't stop until the bottom of the hill”
  3. verb: move smoothly and effortlessly
  4. verb: fly in or as if in a glider plane

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

GLIDES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as G2 L1 I1 D2 E1 S1.

Words Made From The Letters In GLIDES

90 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.

5 letter words (15)

4 letter words (37)

3 letter words (28)

2 letter words (10)

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