What ROOKS Means
ROOKS is a form of ROOK, which means:
- noun: (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard
- noun: common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow
- verb: deprive of by deceit“He swindled me out of my inheritance”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
ROOKS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as R1 O1 O1 K5 S1.
Anagrams of ROOKS (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In ROOKS
18 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 (6)
3 letter words (7)
2 letter words (5)
Longer Words Containing ROOKS
ROOKS 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.