What STIFLES Means
STIFLES is a form of STIFLE, which means:
- verb: suppress in order to conceal or hide“smother a yawn”
- verb: suppress or constrain so as to lessen in intensity“Stifle your curiosity”
- noun: joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
STIFLES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 10 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 T1 I1 F4 L1 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.
Anagrams of STIFLES (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In STIFLES
138 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 (12)
5 letter words (33)
4 letter words (48)
3 letter words (32)
2 letter words (13)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.