What REDUCES Means
REDUCES is a form of REDUCE, which means:
- verb: cut down on; make a reduction in“reduce your daily fat intake”
- verb: make less complex“reduce a problem to a single question”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
REDUCES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as R1 E1 D2 U1 C3 E1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 60 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of REDUCES (4)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In REDUCES
139 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 (35)
4 letter words (51)
3 letter words (29)
2 letter words (8)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.