What STALE Means
- adjective: lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age“stale bread”
- adjective: lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new“moth-eaten theories about race”
- verb: urinate, of cattle and horses
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
STALE 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 T1 A1 L1 E1.
Anagrams of STALE (11)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In STALE
69 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 (30)
ALESALTSATESEASTEATSELTSETASLASELASTLATELATSLEASLEATLESTLETSSALESALTSATESEALSEATSETASLAESLATTAELTAESTALETEALTEASTELATELS
3 letter words (27)
2 letter words (12)
Longer Words Containing STALE
STALE appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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