What POISES Means
POISES is a form of POISE, which means:
- verb: be motionless, in suspension“The bird poised for a few moments before it attacked”
- verb: prepare (oneself), often but not necessarily for something unpleasant or difficult
- noun: a cgs unit of dynamic viscosity equal to one dyne-second per square centimeter; the viscosity of a fluid in which a force of one dyne per square centimeter maintains a velocity of 1 centimeter per second
- noun: a state of being balanced in a stable equilibrium
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
POISES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as P3 O1 I1 S1 E1 S1.
Anagrams of POISES (2)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In POISES
59 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.
5 letter words (9)
4 letter words (19)
3 letter words (19)
2 letter words (12)
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