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MIRES

5 letters, 7 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What MIRES Means

MIRES is a form of MIRE, which means:

  1. verb: entrap“Our people should not be mired in the past”
  2. verb: cause to get stuck as if in a mire“The mud mired our cart”
  3. noun: a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
  4. noun: deep soft mud in water or slush“they waded through the slop”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

MIRES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 7 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as M3 I1 R1 E1 S1.

Anagrams of MIRES (5)

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

Words Made From The Letters In MIRES

41 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.

4 letter words (16)

3 letter words (17)

2 letter words (8)

Longer Words Containing MIRES

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

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