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RADS

4 letters, 5 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What RADS Means

RADS is a form of RAD, which means:

  1. noun: a unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material
  2. noun: the unit of plane angle adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to the angle at the center of a circle subtended by an arc equal in length to the radius (approximately 57.295 degrees)

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

RADS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 5 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as R1 A1 D2 S1.

Anagrams of RADS (2)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In RADS

12 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.

3 letter words (8)

2 letter words (4)

Longer Words Containing RADS

RADS appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.

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