What TENSE Means
- verb: become stretched or tense or taut“the bodybuilder's neck muscles tensed”
- verb: increase the tension on“alternately relax and tense your calf muscle”
- adjective: in or of a state of physical or nervous tension
- adjective: pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in ‘beat’)
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
TENSE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 5 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as T1 E1 N1 S1 E1.
Anagrams of TENSE (6)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In TENSE
34 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.
4 letter words (15)
3 letter words (12)
2 letter words (7)
Longer Words Containing TENSE
TENSE appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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