EAS is valid in Collins, not in North America — 3 points
It depends on the list you play by. EAS is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 3 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept EAS?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 54 / 100
Our own measure of how useful EAS is to know. It scores 3 from 3 tiles, takes 11 hooks, and its letters make up 8.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for EAS
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How EAS scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in EAS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 1 | 12 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 374.
What stands out about EAS
- The same 3 tiles also spell 3 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does EAS mean in Scrabble?
noun
dialectarchaic
Rivers or streams, the plural of ea, an old dialect word for a river.
Ea survives mainly in place names built around old watercourses, and its plural eas would describe more than one such stream in the same dialect tradition. Modern speech has almost entirely replaced both forms with the ordinary word rivers.
How EAS is used
Found mainly in old place names and dialect glossaries.
- Local names still recall the eas that once crossed the valley.
- The old map marked several small eas feeding the mill.
- Historians traced the village's growth along its eas.
- Two eas met just below the ridge before the dam was built.
- The dialect word eas appears only in the oldest field names.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of EAS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of EAS
The 3 tiles of EAS in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with EAS
Showing 24 of 63 words that begin with EAS.
Words ending in EAS
Showing 24 of 168 words that end in EAS. Useful as a back hook: play EAS onto a word already on the board.
Words with EAS inside
Showing 24 of 901 words that contain EAS somewhere in the middle. Words that start with EAS are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in EAS
Common questions about EAS
- Is EAS valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and EAS is not in it.
- How many points is EAS worth?
- EAS is worth 3 points in Scrabble and 3 points in Words with Friends.
- What does EAS mean?
- Rivers or streams, the plural of ea, an old dialect word for a river.
- What letters can be added to EAS?
- EAS takes 11 hooks: 8 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of EAS:
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