What PIRATES Means
PIRATES is a form of PIRATE, which means:
- noun: someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were their own
- noun: someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation
- verb: copy illegally; of published material
- verb: take arbitrarily or by force“The Cubans commandeered the plane and flew it to Miami”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
PIRATES 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 P3 I1 R1 A1 T1 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.
Anagrams of PIRATES (7)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In PIRATES
349 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 (36)
5 letter words (110)
4 letter words (112)
3 letter words (71)
2 letter words (20)
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