What HANDLES Means
HANDLES is a form of HANDLE, which means:
- verb: be in charge of, act on, or dispose of“I can deal with this crew of workers”
- verb: interact in a certain way“Do right by her”
- noun: the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it“he grabbed the hammer by the handle”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
HANDLES 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 H4 A1 N1 D2 L1 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.
Anagrams of HANDLES (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In HANDLES
191 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 (12)
5 letter words (44)
4 letter words (65)
3 letter words (50)
2 letter words (20)
Next: the full rack page for these seven tiles, and the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.