What MOTTLES Means
MOTTLES is a form of MOTTLE, which means:
- verb: mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained
- verb: colour with streaks or blotches of different shades
- noun: an irregular arrangement of patches of color“it was not dull grey as distance had suggested, but a mottle of khaki and black and olive-green”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
MOTTLES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as M3 O1 T1 T1 L1 E1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 59 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In MOTTLES
125 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.
6 letter words (8)
5 letter words (24)
LOMESLOTESLOTTEMELTSMESTOMETOLMOLESMOLTSMOSTEMOTELMOTESMOTETMOTTEMOTTSSMELTSMOLTSMOTESTOLETELOSTOLESTOLTSTOMESTOTEMTOTES
4 letter words (46)
ELMSELTSEMOSLESTLETSLOMELOSELOSTLOTELOTSMELSMELTMETSMOESMOLEMOLSMOLTMOSEMOSTMOTEMOTSMOTTOLESOLMSSETTSLOESLOTSOLESOMESTEMSTETSTOTTELSTELTTEMSTESTTETSTOESTOLETOLTTOMETOMSTOSETOSTTOTETOTS
3 letter words (33)
2 letter words (14)
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