What LADDERS Means
LADDERS is a form of LADDER, which means:
- noun: steps consisting of two parallel members connected by rungs; for climbing up or down
- noun: ascending stages by which somebody or something can progress“he climbed the career ladder”
- verb: come unraveled or undone as if by snagging“Her nylons were running”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
LADDERS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as L1 A1 D2 D2 E1 R1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 59 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of LADDERS (2)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In LADDERS
149 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.
6 letter words (13)
5 letter words (37)
4 letter words (48)
3 letter words (37)
2 letter words (14)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.