What IRIS Means
- noun: plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals
- noun: muscular diaphragm that controls the size of the pupil which in turn controls the amount of light that enters the eye; it forms the colored portion of the eye
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
IRIS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 4 in Scrabble and 4 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as I1 R1 I1 S1.
Anagrams of IRIS (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In IRIS
4 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.
3 letter words (2)
2 letter words (2)
Longer Words Containing IRIS
IRIS appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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