What REFEREE Means
- noun: (sports) the chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play
- noun: someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication
- verb: be a referee or umpire in a sports competition
- verb: evaluate professionally a colleague's work
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
REFEREE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 10 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as R1 E1 F4 E1 R1 E1 E1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 60 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In REFEREE
21 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 (1)
5 letter words (4)
4 letter words (4)
3 letter words (7)
2 letter words (5)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.