What WADES Means
WADES is a form of WAD, which means:
- noun: a small mass of soft material“he used a wad of cotton to wipe the counter”
- noun: (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent“a batch of letters”
- verb: compress into a wad“wad paper into the box”
- verb: crowd or pack to capacity“the theater was jampacked”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
WADES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as W4 A1 D2 E1 S1.
Anagrams of WADES (2)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In WADES
41 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 (13)
3 letter words (18)
2 letter words (10)
Longer Words Containing WADES
WADES appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.