What STROKES Means
STROKES is a form of STROKE, which means:
- noun: (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand“it took two strokes to get out of the bunker”
- noun: the maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam
- verb: touch lightly and repeatedly, as with brushing motions“He stroked his long beard”
- verb: strike a ball with a smooth blow
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
STROKES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 T1 R1 O1 K5 E1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 61 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of STROKES (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In STROKES
134 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 (16)
5 letter words (34)
4 letter words (45)
3 letter words (27)
2 letter words (12)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.