HERALDS Meaning, Scrabble Score and Anagrams

What HERALDS Means

HERALDS is a form of HERALD, which means:

verb: foreshadow or presage
verb: praise vociferously“The critics hailed the young pianist as a new Rubinstein”
noun: (formal) a person who announces important news“the chieftain had a herald who announced his arrival with a trumpet”
noun: something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

HERALDS 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 E1 R1 A1 L1 D2 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 HERALDS (1)

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

HARELDS

Words Made From The Letters In HERALDS

222 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 (19)

ALDERS ASHLER DASHER HALERS HALSED HALSER HARELD HARLED HEALDS HEARDS HERALD LADERS LASHED LASHER RASHED SARDEL SHADER SHALED SHARED

5 letter words (59)

4 letter words (75)

3 letter words (50)

ADS AHS ALE ALS ARD ARE ARS ASH DAE DAH DAL DAS DEL EAR EAS EDH EDS EHS ELD ELS ERA ERS HAD HAE HAS HER HES LAD LAH LAR LAS LEA LED LES RAD RAH RAS RED REH RES SAD SAE SAL SAR SEA SED SEL SER SHA SHE

2 letter words (19)

AD AE AH AL AR AS DA DE EA ED EH EL ER ES HA HE LA RE SH

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HERALDS