What YARDS Means
YARDS is a form of YARD, which means:
- noun: a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride
- noun: the enclosed land around a house or other building“it was a small house with almost no yard”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
YARDS 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 Y4 A1 R1 D2 S1.
Anagrams of YARDS (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In YARDS
35 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 (12)
3 letter words (17)
2 letter words (6)
Longer Words Containing YARDS
YARDS appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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