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THAWS

5 letters, 11 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What THAWS Means

THAWS is a form of THAW, which means:

  1. noun: the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid“the power failure caused a refrigerator melt that was a disaster”
  2. noun: warm weather following a freeze; snow and ice melt“they welcomed the spring thaw”
  3. verb: become or cause to become soft or liquid“The sun melted the ice”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

THAWS 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 T1 H4 A1 W4 S1.

Anagrams of THAWS (2)

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

Words Made From The Letters In THAWS

39 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 (16)

3 letter words (15)

2 letter words (8)

Longer Words Containing THAWS

THAWS appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.

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