What SPONGES Means
SPONGES is a form of SPONGE, which means:
- verb: wipe with a sponge, so as to clean or moisten
- verb: ask for and get free; be a parasite
- noun: a porous mass of interlacing fibers that forms the internal skeleton of various marine animals and usable to absorb water or any porous rubber or cellulose product similarly used
- noun: someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily“she soaks up foreign languages like a sponge”
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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
SPONGES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 P3 O1 N1 G2 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.
Words Made From The Letters In SPONGES
105 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 (19)
4 letter words (40)
EGOSENGSEONSEPOSGENSGEOSGOESGONEGONSGOSSNEGSNEPSNESSNOESNOGSNOPENOSEONESOPENOPESOSESPEGSPENSPEONPESOPONEPONGPONSPOSEPOSSSEGOSEGSSENSSEPSSNOGSOGSSONESONGSONSSOPS
3 letter words (30)
2 letter words (12)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.