What PLEDGES Means
PLEDGES is a form of PLEDGE, which means:
- verb: promise solemnly and formally“I pledge that I will honor my wife”
- verb: pay (an amount of money) as a contribution to a charity or service, especially at regular intervals“I pledged $10 a month to my favorite radio station”
- noun: a deposit of personal property as security for a debt“his saxophone was in pledge”
- noun: someone accepted for membership but not yet fully admitted to the group
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
PLEDGES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as P3 L1 E1 D2 G2 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 PLEDGES
94 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 (5)
5 letter words (21)
DEEPSDELESEDGESGEEPSGELDSGLEDEGLEDSGLEEDGLEESLEDGELEEPSLEGESPEDESPEELSPELESSEDGESEELDSLEEPSPEEDSPEELSPELD
4 letter words (38)
DEEPDEESDEGSDELEDELSEDGEEELSELDSELSEGEDSGEEDGEEPGEESGELDGELSGLEDGLEELEEDLEEPLEESLEGSLEPSPEDSPEEDPEELPEESPEGSPELEPELSPLEDSEEDSEELSEEPSELDSELESLEDSLEESPED
3 letter words (24)
2 letter words (6)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.