What RAPPELS Means
RAPPELS is a form of RAPPEL, which means:
- noun: (mountaineering) a descent of a vertical cliff or wall made by using a doubled rope that is fixed to a higher point and wrapped around the body
- verb: descend by means of a rappel“The ascent was easy, roping down the mountain would be much more difficult and dangerous”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
RAPPELS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as R1 A1 P3 P3 E1 L1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 61 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of RAPPELS (2)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In RAPPELS
171 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 (12)
5 letter words (49)
4 letter words (57)
3 letter words (41)
2 letter words (12)
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