What GRAINES Means
GRAINES is a form of GRAIN, which means:
- noun: a relatively small granular particle of a substance“a grain of sand”
- noun: foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
- verb: thoroughly work in“His hands were grained with dirt”
- verb: paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
GRAINES 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 R1 A1 I1 N1 E1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 58 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of GRAINES (9)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In GRAINES
265 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 (32)
5 letter words (63)
4 letter words (92)
3 letter words (61)
2 letter words (17)
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