What SORTIES Means
SORTIES is a form of SORTIE, which means:
- noun: a military action in which besieged troops burst forth from their position
- noun: (military) an operational flight by a single aircraft (as in a military operation)
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
SORTIES 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 S1 O1 R1 T1 I1 E1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 57 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of SORTIES (7)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In SORTIES
167 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 (26)
5 letter words (38)
4 letter words (52)
3 letter words (34)
2 letter words (17)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.