What YIELD Means
- verb: be the cause or source of“He gave me a lot of trouble”
- verb: end resistance, as under pressure or force“The door yielded to repeated blows with a battering ram”
- noun: production of a certain amount
- noun: the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property“the average return was about 5%”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
YIELD 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 I1 E1 L1 D2.
Words Made From The Letters In YIELD
30 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 (9)
3 letter words (14)
2 letter words (7)
Longer Words Containing YIELD
YIELD appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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