What HIKES Means
HIKES is a form of HIKE, which means:
- noun: a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure“she enjoys a hike in her spare time”
- noun: an increase in cost“they asked for a 10% rise in rates”
- verb: increase“The landlord hiked up the rents”
- verb: walk a long way, as for pleasure or physical exercise“We were hiking in Colorado”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
HIKES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as H4 I1 K5 E1 S1.
Anagrams of HIKES (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In HIKES
29 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 (9)
3 letter words (12)
2 letter words (8)
Longer Words Containing HIKES
HIKES 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.