PRIMITIVES

What PRIMITIVES Means

PRIMITIVES is a form of PRIMITIVE, which means:

1. adjective: belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness“the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man”
2. adjective: little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type“archaic forms of life”
3. noun: a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization
4. noun: a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

PRIMITIVES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 17 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as P3 R1 I1 M3 I1 T1 I1 V4 E1 S1.

Words Made From The Letters In PRIMITIVES

302 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.

9 letter words (2)

8 letter words (2)

7 letter words (16)

6 letter words (43)

5 letter words (82)

4 letter words (95)

3 letter words (47)

2 letter words (15)

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