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SKIPS

5 letters, 11 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What SKIPS Means

SKIPS is a form of SKIP, which means:

  1. verb: bypass“He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible”
  2. verb: intentionally fail to attend“cut class”
  3. noun: a gait in which steps and hops alternate
  4. noun: a mistake resulting from neglect

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

SKIPS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 K5 I1 P3 S1.

Anagrams of SKIPS (1)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In SKIPS

19 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 (7)

3 letter words (8)

2 letter words (4)

Longer Words Containing SKIPS

SKIPS 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.