What SLUICES Means
SLUICES is a form of SLUICE, which means:
- verb: pour as if from a sluice“An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef”
- verb: irrigate with water from a sluice“sluice the earth”
- noun: conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
SLUICES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 L1 U1 I1 C3 E1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 59 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In SLUICES
80 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 (4)
5 letter words (18)
4 letter words (30)
CEILCELSCESSCIELCLUECUESCUSSECUSICESISLELEISLESSLICELIESLIEULUCELUESSCULSECSSEILSEISSELSSICESICSSIESSILESLUESUESULESUSES
3 letter words (22)
2 letter words (6)
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