What NUKES Means
NUKES is a form of NUKE, which means:
- verb: strike at with firepower or bombs“zap the enemy”
- verb: bomb with atomic weapons
- noun: the warhead of a missile designed to deliver an atom bomb
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
NUKES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as N1 U1 K5 E1 S1.
Anagrams of NUKES (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In NUKES
29 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 (10)
3 letter words (13)
2 letter words (6)
Longer Words Containing NUKES
NUKES appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.