LESS

What LESS Means

1. adjective: (comparative of ‘little’ usually used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree“of less importance”
2. adjective: (usually preceded by ‘no’) lower in quality“no less than perfect”
3. adverb: used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs, indicates that the adjective or adverb is less of something“less interesting”
4. adverb: comparative of little“she walks less than she should”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

LESS 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 L1 E1 S1 S1.

Anagrams of LESS (1)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In LESS

6 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 (4)

2 letter words (2)

Longer Words Containing LESS

LESS appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.

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