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REEDS

5 letters, 6 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What REEDS Means

REEDS is a form of REED, which means:

  1. noun: tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites
  2. noun: a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it“the clarinetist fitted a new reed onto his mouthpiece”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

REEDS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 6 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as R1 E1 E1 D2 S1.

Anagrams of REEDS (6)

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

Words Made From The Letters In REEDS

29 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 (13)

3 letter words (10)

2 letter words (6)

Longer Words Containing REEDS

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

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