What PRESSES Means
PRESSES is a form of PRESS, which means:
- verb: exert pressure or force to or upon“He pressed down on the boards”
- verb: force or impel in an indicated direction“I urged him to finish his studies”
- noun: the state of demanding notice or attention“the insistence of their hunger”
- noun: the print media responsible for gathering and publishing news in the form of newspapers or magazines
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
PRESSES 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 R1 E1 S1 S1 E1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 59 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of PRESSES (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In PRESSES
54 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 (6)
5 letter words (14)
4 letter words (17)
3 letter words (12)
2 letter words (5)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.