What PLAY Means
- verb: participate in games or sport“We played hockey all afternoon”
- verb: act or have an effect in a specified way or with a specific effect or outcome“This factor played only a minor part in his decision”
- noun: a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage“he wrote several plays but only one was produced on Broadway”
- noun: a theatrical performance of a drama“the play lasted two hours”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
PLAY 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 L1 A1 Y4.
Anagrams of PLAY (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In PLAY
13 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.
3 letter words (8)
2 letter words (5)
Longer Words Containing PLAY
PLAY appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.