Is ELVES a word?
ELVES is a valid word in Scrabble and Words With Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words With Friends, has 5 letters, and can be rearranged into 2 other words, plus 19 shorter words built from the same letters.
Yes, ELVES is a valid word.
What does elves mean?
noun: an acronym for emissions of light and very low frequency perturbations due to electromagnetic pulse sources; extremely bright extremely short (less than a msec) electrical flashes forming a huge ring (up to 400 km diameter) in the ionosphere.
Definition from WordNet, Princeton University.
ELVES: word details
- Pronunciation: EHLVZ (approx., 1 syllable)
- Length: 5 letters, a medium-length word. It is one of 12,578 5-letter words in our dictionary.
- Scrabble: worth 8 points on the tiles.
- Words With Friends: worth 10 points on the tiles.
- Wordle: five letters, so ELVES works as a Wordle guess or answer.
- Games: recognised in the combined word list Unscrambly uses for Scrabble and Words With Friends. Acceptance in official tournament lists (TWL, SOWPODS) can vary.
Anagrams of elves
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Words you can make from the letters of elves.
Solve a whole rack, not just ELVES
ELVES is one word. If you are holding tiles rather than looking up a single entry, the Scrabble word finder ranks every play from your rack by points, and the Words With Friends solver scores the same letters with WWF values instead, which changes the order of the list.
Frequently asked questions
What does ELVES mean?
ELVES is a noun. It means: an acronym for emissions of light and very low frequency perturbations due to electromagnetic pulse sources; extremely bright extremely short (less than a msec) electrical flashes forming a huge ring (up to 400 km diameter) in the ionosphere.
Is ELVES a valid word?
Yes, ELVES is a valid word. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words With Friends.
Unscrambly validity is based on a large open English word list used across word games. Word acceptance varies by the exact tournament dictionary in use.