What MISSES Means
MISSES is a form of MISS, which means:
- verb: fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind“I missed that remark”
- verb: feel or suffer from the lack of“He misses his mother”
- noun: a young female“a young lady of 18”
- noun: a failure to hit (or meet or find etc.)
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
MISSES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as M3 I1 S1 S1 E1 S1.
Anagrams of MISSES (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In MISSES
28 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.
5 letter words (4)
4 letter words (10)
3 letter words (8)
2 letter words (6)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.