Remains
/ɹɪˈmeɪnz/
noun
verb
- To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised.
- To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.
"There was no food in the house, so I had to remain hungry."
- To await; to be left to.
- To continue in a state of being.
"The light remained red for two full minutes."
noun
- What is left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse.
"The victim's remains were one small piece of bone."
- Historical or archaeological relics.
- The extant writings of a deceased person.
"To his great intellectual powers his published remains bear abundant witness."
- All that is left of the stock of some things; remnants.
"He couldn't bring himself to eat the remains of the chicken dinner."
Total: 9 Scrabble points
Word Validity & Sources
Dictionary data sourced from SOWPODS (178,691 words), combining TWL (Tournament Word List) and the Collins Scrabble Words dictionary. Definitions from Free Dictionary API and Wordnik.
About the Word "Remains"
Remains is a 7-letter word that scores 9 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words With Friends. The letters in "remains" can be rearranged to form 2 other valid words.
Using "Remains" in Word Games
When playing Scrabble or Words With Friends, "remains" is a low-scoring word.