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WAITS

5 letters, 8 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What WAITS Means

WAITS is a form of WAIT, which means:

  1. verb: stay in one place and anticipate or expect something“I had to wait on line for an hour to get the tickets”
  2. verb: wait before acting“the scientists held off announcing their results until they repeated the experiment”
  3. noun: time during which some action is awaited“instant replay caused too long a delay”
  4. noun: the act of waiting (remaining inactive in one place while expecting something)“the wait was an ordeal for him”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

WAITS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as W4 A1 I1 T1 S1.

Anagrams of WAITS (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In WAITS

43 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 (14)

3 letter words (19)

2 letter words (10)

Longer Words Containing WAITS

WAITS 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.