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WASTES

6 letters, 9 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What WASTES Means

WASTES is a form of WASTE, which means:

  1. verb: spend thoughtlessly; throw away“He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends”
  2. verb: use inefficiently or inappropriately“waste heat”
  3. noun: any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted“they collect the waste once a week”
  4. noun: useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly“if the effort brings no compensating gain, it is a waste”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

WASTES 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 S1 T1 E1 S1.

Anagrams of WASTES (2)

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

Words Made From The Letters In WASTES

85 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.

5 letter words (16)

4 letter words (32)

3 letter words (26)

2 letter words (11)

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