What HIRES Means
HIRES is a form of HIRE, which means:
- verb: engage or hire for work“They hired two new secretaries in the department”
- verb: hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services
- noun: a newly hired employee“the new hires need special training”
- noun: the act of hiring something or someone“he signed up for a week's car hire”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
HIRES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as H4 I1 R1 E1 S1.
Anagrams of HIRES (5)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In HIRES
39 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 (14)
3 letter words (16)
2 letter words (9)
Longer Words Containing HIRES
HIRES 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.