What PLIES Means
PLIES is a form of PLY, which means:
- verb: give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance“The hostess provided lunch for all the guests”
- verb: apply oneself diligently“Ply one's trade”
- noun: one of the strands twisted together to make yarn or rope or thread; often used in combination“three-ply cord”
- noun: (usually in combinations) one of several layers of cloth or paper or wood as in plywood
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
PLIES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as P3 L1 I1 E1 S1.
Anagrams of PLIES (5)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In PLIES
39 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.
4 letter words (17)
3 letter words (15)
2 letter words (7)
Longer Words Containing PLIES
PLIES appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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