What RIPES Means
RIPES is a form of RIP, which means:
- verb: tear or be torn violently“The curtain ripped from top to bottom”
- verb: move precipitously or violently“The tornado ripped along the coast”
- noun: a dissolute man in fashionable society
- noun: an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart“there was a rip in his pants”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
RIPES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as R1 I1 P3 E1 S1.
Anagrams of RIPES (8)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In RIPES
41 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 (16)
3 letter words (18)
2 letter words (7)
Longer Words Containing RIPES
RIPES appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.