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JOYRIDE

7 letters, 18 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What JOYRIDE Means

  1. noun: a ride in a car taken solely for pleasure“they took their girlfriends for joyrides in stolen cars”
  2. verb: ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it“We tooled down the street”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

JOYRIDE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 18 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as J8 O1 Y4 R1 I1 D2 E1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 68 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In JOYRIDE

65 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 (2)

4 letter words (21)

3 letter words (26)

2 letter words (16)

Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.