What TRIES Means
TRIES is a form of TRY, which means:
- verb: make an effort or attempt“He tried to shake off his fears”
- verb: put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to“This approach has been tried with good results”
- noun: earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something“made an effort to cover all the reading material”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
TRIES 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 R1 I1 E1 S1.
Anagrams of TRIES (6)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In TRIES
45 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 (18)
3 letter words (17)
2 letter words (10)
Longer Words Containing TRIES
TRIES appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
ADVOUTRIESAGENTRIESANCESTRIESARTISTRIESAVOUTRIESBABBITRIESBANDITRIESBARRATRIESBARRETRIESBASKETRIESBIGOTRIESBIOMETRIESBOLLETRIESBULLETRIESCENTRIESCHANTRIESCHAUNTRIESCHOLTRIESCHOULTRIESCOQUETRIESCORSETRIESCOUNTRIESDEVILTRIESENTRIESERRANTRIESEXECUTRIESFORESTRIESFRATRIESGADGETRIESGANNETRIESGANTRIESGAUNTRIESGENTRIESGEOLATRIESGEOMETRIESGIANTRIESGYNIATRIESHARLOTRIESHELOTRIESHERMITRIES
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.