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STAVES

6 letters, 9 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What STAVES Means

STAVES is a form of STAVE, which means:

  1. noun: (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written
  2. noun: one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket
  3. verb: furnish with staves“stave a ladder”
  4. verb: burst or force (a hole) into something

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

STAVES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 T1 A1 V4 E1 S1.

Anagrams of STAVES (1)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In STAVES

65 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.

5 letter words (11)

4 letter words (23)

3 letter words (22)

2 letter words (9)

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