What PLAGUES Means
PLAGUES is a form of PLAGUE, which means:
- noun: a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal
- noun: any epidemic disease with a high death rate
- verb: cause to suffer a blight“Too much rain may blight the garden with mold”
- verb: annoy continually or chronically“He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
PLAGUES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as P3 L1 A1 G2 U1 E1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 60 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of PLAGUES (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In PLAGUES
188 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 (4)
5 letter words (40)
4 letter words (73)
3 letter words (57)
2 letter words (14)
Next: the full rack page for these seven tiles, and the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.