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IRISES

6 letters, 6 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What IRISES Means

IRISES is a form of IRIS, which means:

  1. noun: plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals
  2. 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

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

IRISES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 6 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as I1 R1 I1 S1 E1 S1.

Words Made From The Letters In IRISES

32 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.

5 letter words (5)

4 letter words (12)

3 letter words (10)

2 letter words (5)

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