What RAKES Means
RAKES is a form of RAKE, which means:
- verb: move through with or as if with a rake“She raked her fingers through her hair”
- verb: level or smooth with a rake“rake gravel”
- noun: a dissolute man in fashionable society
- noun: degree of deviation from a horizontal plane“the roof had a steep pitch”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
RAKES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as R1 A1 K5 E1 S1.
Anagrams of RAKES (6)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In RAKES
46 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.
4 letter words (18)
3 letter words (20)
2 letter words (8)
Longer Words Containing RAKES
RAKES appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.