What OFFSIDE Means
- noun: (sport) the mistake of occupying an illegal position on the playing field (in football, soccer, ice hockey, field hockey, etc.)
- adjective: illegally beyond a prescribed line or area or ahead of the ball or puck“the touchdown was nullified because the left tackle was offside”
- adverb: illegally in advance of the ball or puck
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
OFFSIDE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 14 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as O1 F4 F4 S1 I1 D2 E1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 64 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of OFFSIDE (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In OFFSIDE
92 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 (2)
5 letter words (14)
4 letter words (25)
DEFIDEFODEIFDESIDIESDIFFDIFSDOESDOFFDOSEEFFSFEDSFEISFEODFIDOFIDSFIEFFIFEFOESFOIDIDESODESOFFSSEIFSIDE
3 letter words (33)
2 letter words (18)
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