What WANTS Means
WANTS is a form of WANT, which means:
- verb: feel or have a desire for; want strongly“I want to go home now”
- verb: have need of“This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner”
- noun: a state of extreme poverty
- noun: the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable“there is a serious lack of insight into the problem”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
WANTS 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 N1 T1 S1.
Words Made From The Letters In WANTS
40 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 (17)
2 letter words (7)
Longer Words Containing WANTS
WANTS appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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