What STRIDES Means
STRIDES is a form of STRIDE, which means:
- noun: a step in walking or running
- noun: the distance covered by a step“he stepped off ten paces from the old tree and began to dig”
- verb: walk with long steps“He strode confidently across the hall”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
STRIDES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 T1 R1 I1 D2 E1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 58 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of STRIDES (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In STRIDES
141 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 (14)
5 letter words (35)
4 letter words (47)
3 letter words (31)
2 letter words (14)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.