What RECOILS Means
RECOILS is a form of RECOIL, which means:
- verb: draw back, as with fear or pain“she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf”
- verb: come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect“Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble”
- noun: the backward jerk of a gun when it is fired
- noun: a movement back from an impact
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
RECOILS 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 R1 E1 C3 O1 I1 L1 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 RECOILS (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In RECOILS
182 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 (16)
5 letter words (49)
4 letter words (62)
3 letter words (41)
2 letter words (14)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.