What RUNES Means
RUNES is a form of RUN, which means:
- verb: move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time“Don't run, you'll be out of breath”
- verb: flee; take to one's heels; cut and run“If you see this man, run!”
- noun: a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely“the Yankees scored 3 runs in the bottom of the 9th”
- noun: the act of testing something“in the experimental trials the amount of carbon was measured separately”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
RUNES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as R1 U1 N1 E1 S1.
Anagrams of RUNES (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In RUNES
39 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 (12)
3 letter words (18)
2 letter words (9)
Longer Words Containing RUNES
RUNES 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.