What SANDFLY Means
- noun: any of various small dipterous flies; bloodsucking females can transmit sandfly fever and leishmaniasis
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
SANDFLY is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 14 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 A1 N1 D2 F4 L1 Y4.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 64 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In SANDFLY
73 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.
5 letter words (7)
4 letter words (24)
3 letter words (30)
2 letter words (12)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.