What SORTS Means
SORTS is a form of SORT, which means:
- noun: a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality“sculpture is a form of art”
- noun: an approximate definition or example“she wore a sort of magenta dress”
- verb: examine in order to test suitability“screen these samples”
- verb: arrange or order by classes or categories“How would you classify these pottery shards, are they prehistoric?”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
SORTS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 5 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 O1 R1 T1 S1.
Anagrams of SORTS (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In SORTS
18 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 (6)
2 letter words (5)
Longer Words Containing SORTS
SORTS 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.