Latches is valid Scrabble Word

Is latches a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is latches valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

7 letters word
12 points in Scrabble
13 points in WWF

Definitions for LATCHES in dictionary:

VERB:

LATCH, to close a gate with a catch
fasten (a door or gate) with a latch
(of a device) become fixed in a particular state

NOUN:

a metal bar with a catch and lever used for fastening a door or gate
a spring lock for an outer door, which catches when the door is closed and can only be opened from the outside with a key.
the part of a knitting machine needle which closes or opens to hold or release the wool.
a circuit which retains whatever output state results from a momentary input signal until reset by another signal.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to close with a type of fastening device

Words related to LATCHES

latch10 latched13 latching14

Words that contain LATCHES

clatches15 klatches17 slatches13 splatches16 unlatches14 potlatches17 throatlatches21

How to use LATCHES in a sentence

Normally you try to catch a croc by throwing a sort of a small anchor in and when the croc latches on to it you try and pull it out.
The doors were opened by wooden latches with leather strings, and sagged so much on their wooden hinges, that they were usually left open to avoid the difficulty of shutting them.
They used buttons and door knobs whittled out of wood, and door latches with strings.
The stocks had hinges on one side and latches on the other.
One motor is placed at each end of the span to operate the eccentrics and also to release the latches and raise the rails of the steam track.
She could let down bars, lift up latches, draw bolts, and turn all sorts of buttons.
Overhung by the bright blue sky, enveloped in verdant forests full of game, nought cared they for the absence of houses with their locks and latches.

Similar words containing LATCHE without suffix s

latched13 latchet12 clatched16 clatches15 klatches17 latchets13 slatches13 splatched17 splatches16 unlatched15 unlatches14 potlatched18 potlatches17 throatlatches21

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