MENACES Meaning, Scrabble Score and Anagrams

What MENACES Means

MENACES is a form of MENACE, which means:

verb: pose a threat to; present a danger to“The pollution is endangering the crops”
verb: express a threat either by an utterance or a gesture“he menaced the bank manager with a stick”
noun: something that is a source of danger“earthquakes are a constant threat in Japan”
noun: a threat or the act of threatening“he spoke with desperate menace”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

MENACES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as M3 E1 N1 A1 C3 E1 S1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 61 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Anagrams of MENACES (2)

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

CASEMEN EMACSEN

Words Made From The Letters In MENACES

136 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.