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PASSIVES

8 letters, 13 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What PASSIVES Means

PASSIVES is a form of PASSIVE, which means:

  1. adjective: lacking in energy or will“Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself”
  2. adjective: peacefully resistant in response to injustice“passive resistance”
  3. noun: the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the source) of the action denoted by the verb“‘The ball was thrown by the boy’ uses the passive voice”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

PASSIVES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as P3 A1 S1 S1 I1 V4 E1 S1.

Anagrams of PASSIVES (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In PASSIVES

113 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.

7 letter words (6)

6 letter words (8)

5 letter words (23)

4 letter words (38)

3 letter words (28)

2 letter words (10)

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