What WATCHES Means
WATCHES is a form of WATCH, which means:
- verb: look attentively“watch a basketball game”
- verb: follow with the eyes or the mind“Keep an eye on the baby, please!”
- noun: a small portable timepiece
- noun: a period of time (4 or 2 hours) during which some of a ship's crew are on duty
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
WATCHES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 15 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as W4 A1 T1 C3 H4 E1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 65 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In WATCHES
194 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.
6 letter words (10)
5 letter words (39)
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4 letter words (77)
ACESACHEACTSAESCATESAWESCASECASHCASTCATECATSCAWSCEASCHASCHATCHAWCHEWEACHEASTEATHEATSECHTETASETCHETHSEWTSHAESHAETHASTHATEHATSHAWSHEATHESTHETSHEWSSATESCAWSEATSECHSECTSETASHATSHAWSHEASHETSHEWSHWASTAWSTEWSWATTACETACHTAESTASHTAWSTEASTECHTECSTEWSTHAETHAWTHEWTWAETWASWAESWASEWASHWASTWATEWATSWESTWETAWETSWHAEWHATWHET
3 letter words (51)
ACEACHACTAHSASHATEATSAWECATCAWCHACHEEASEATECHEHSESTETAETHEWTHAEHASHATHAWHESHETHEWSACSAESATSAWSEASECSETSEWSHASHETAETASTAWTEATECTESTEWTHETWAWAEWASWATWETWHA
2 letter words (17)
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