What MAPS Means
MAPS is a form of MAP, which means:
- verb: make a map of; show or establish the features of details of“map the surface of Venus”
- verb: explore or survey for the purpose of making a map“We haven't even begun to map the many galaxies that we know exist”
- noun: a diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it)
- noun: (mathematics) a mathematical relation such that each element of a given set (the domain of the function) is associated with an element of another set (the range of the function)
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
MAPS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as M3 A1 P3 S1.
Anagrams of MAPS (4)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In MAPS
14 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 (10)
2 letter words (4)
Longer Words Containing MAPS
MAPS appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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