What QUAKES Means
QUAKES is a form of QUAKE, which means:
- verb: shake with fast, tremulous movements“His nostrils palpitated”
- verb: shake with seismic vibrations“The earth was quaking”
- noun: shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane or from volcanic activity
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
QUAKES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 19 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as Q10 U1 A1 K5 E1 S1.
Anagrams of QUAKES (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In QUAKES
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 (2)
4 letter words (10)
3 letter words (21)
2 letter words (6)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.