What PADDLES Means
PADDLES is a form of PADDLE, which means:
- verb: propel with a paddle“paddle your own canoe”
- verb: play in or as if in water, as of small children
- noun: small wooden bat with a flat surface; used for hitting balls in various games
- noun: a blade of a paddle wheel or water wheel
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
PADDLES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as P3 A1 D2 D2 L1 E1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 61 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In PADDLES
135 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 (9)
5 letter words (30)
ADDLEDALEDDALESDEADSDEALSDEDALLADEDLADESLAPSELASEDLEADSLEAPSPADLEPALEDPALESPEALSPEDALPELASPLEADPLEASSALEPSEPADSEPALSLADESPADESPAEDSPALDSPALESPEALSPELD
4 letter words (44)
ADDSALESALPSAPEDAPESAPSEDADSDAESDALEDALSDAPSDEADDEALDELSELDSLADELADSLAPSLASELEADLEAPLEASLEPSPADSPALEPALSPASEPEALPEASPEDSPELAPELSPLEAPLEDSADESALESALPSEALSELDSLAESLAPSLEDSPAESPED
3 letter words (39)
ADDADSALEALPALSAPEASPDADDAEDALDAPDASDELEASEDSELDELSLADLAPLASLEALEDLEPLESPADPALPASPEAPEDPELPESSADSAESALSAPSEASEDSELSPA
2 letter words (13)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.