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ABILITY

7 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What ABILITY Means

  1. noun: the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment
  2. noun: possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done“danger heightened his powers of discrimination”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

ABILITY is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as A1 B3 I1 L1 I1 T1 Y4.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 62 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In ABILITY

54 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.

6 letter words (1)

5 letter words (7)

4 letter words (13)

3 letter words (19)

2 letter words (14)

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