What SPRAINS Means
SPRAINS is a form of SPRAIN, which means:
- noun: a painful injury to a joint caused by a sudden wrenching of its ligaments
- verb: twist suddenly so as to sprain“wrench one's ankle”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
SPRAINS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 P3 R1 A1 I1 N1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 59 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of SPRAINS (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In SPRAINS
132 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 (5)
5 letter words (30)
4 letter words (50)
3 letter words (37)
2 letter words (10)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.