TALLIES Meaning, Scrabble Score and Anagrams

What TALLIES Means

TALLIES is a form of TALLY, which means:

verb: be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics“The two stories don't agree in many details”
verb: gain points in a game“The home team is racking up points”
noun: a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely“the Yankees scored 3 runs in the bottom of the 9th”
noun: a bill for an amount due

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

TALLIES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 7 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as T1 A1 L1 L1 I1 E1 S1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 57 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Anagrams of TALLIES (2)

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

SITELLA TAILLES

Words Made From The Letters In TALLIES

180 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.