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RYES

4 letters, 7 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What RYES Means

RYES is a form of RYE, which means:

  1. noun: the seed of the cereal grass
  2. noun: hardy annual cereal grass widely cultivated in northern Europe where its grain is the chief ingredient of black bread and in North America for forage and soil improvement

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

RYES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 7 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as R1 Y4 E1 S1.

Words Made From The Letters In RYES

11 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.

3 letter words (7)

2 letter words (4)

Longer Words Containing RYES

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

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