What POLYPS Means
POLYPS is a form of POLYP, which means:
- noun: a small vascular growth on the surface of a mucous membrane
- noun: one of two forms that coelenterates take (e.g. a hydra or coral): usually sedentary with a hollow cylindrical body usually with a ring of tentacles around the mouth“in some species of coelenterate, polyps are a phase in the life cycle that alternates with a medusoid phase”
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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
POLYPS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as P3 O1 L1 Y4 P3 S1.
Anagrams of POLYPS (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In POLYPS
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.
5 letter words (9)
4 letter words (9)
3 letter words (14)
2 letter words (7)
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