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noun · verb · 8 letters · Very common · plural and third-person singular form of search

  • Scrabble US & Canada : valid
  • Scrabble UK & worldwide : valid
  • Words With Friends : valid
  • Wordle : not valid

What does searches mean?

noun

  1. the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone

    Synonymshunthunting

  2. an investigation seeking answers

    “a thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing”

  3. an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property

    “they wrote a program to do a table lookup”

    Synonymslookup

  4. the examination of alternative hypotheses

    “his search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful”

  5. boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas

    “right of search”

verb

  1. try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of

    “The police are searching for clues”

    Synonymsseeklook for

  2. search or seek

    “We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest”

    Synonymslook

  3. inquire into

    “the students had to research the history of the Second World War for their history project”

    Synonymsresearchexplore

  4. subject to a search

    “The police searched the suspect”

Definitions shown for search, the base form of searches.

Is SEARCHES a valid word?

Game / word listValid?
Scrabble US & Canada (NWL / TWL) Yes
Scrabble UK & worldwide (Collins / SOWPODS) Yes
Words With Friends (ENABLE) Yes
Wordle (guess list) No

How many points is SEARCHES worth?

Scrabble

13 pts
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Words With Friends

13 pts
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Wordfeud

14 pts
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NYT Crossplay

12 pts
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Scores are the sum of the tile values, before premium squares or bingo bonuses.

Words from the letters in SEARCHES

Words that end like SEARCHES

Common words that share the ending -EARCHES, handy for rhymes, poems and wordplay. Matches are based on spelling, so a few may not rhyme exactly.

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All words ending in -EARCHES

Searches: quick answers

Is SEARCHES a valid Scrabble word?
Yes. SEARCHES is accepted in both the North American (NWL) and the international Collins Scrabble word lists, and scores 13 points before board bonuses.
How many points is SEARCHES worth?
SEARCHES scores 13 points in Scrabble, 13 in Words With Friends, 14 in Wordfeud and 12 in NYT Crossplay. These are plain tile totals, before any double- or triple-letter and word squares.
What does searches mean?
searches is the plural and third-person singular form of search, which means “the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone”. It has 9 meanings in total, listed above.
What words can you make with the letters in SEARCHES?
You can make 219 shorter words from SEARCHES, such as CHASERS, CRASHES, ESCHARS, REACHES. See the full list.