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SLASHES

7 letters, 10 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What SLASHES Means

SLASHES is a form of SLASH, which means:

  1. verb: cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete
  2. verb: beat severely with a whip or rod“The teacher often flogged the students”
  3. noun: a wound made by cutting“he put a bandage over the cut”
  4. noun: an open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind)

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

SLASHES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 10 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 L1 A1 S1 H4 E1 S1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 60 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Anagrams of SLASHES (3)

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

Words Made From The Letters In SLASHES

84 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.

6 letter words (11)

5 letter words (17)

4 letter words (23)

3 letter words (21)

2 letter words (12)

Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.