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ABLAUTS

7 letters, 9 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What ABLAUTS Means

ABLAUTS is a form of ABLAUT, which means:

  1. noun: a vowel whose quality or length is changed to indicate linguistic distinctions (such as sing sang sung song)

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

ABLAUTS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as A1 B3 L1 A1 U1 T1 S1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 59 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In ABLAUTS

113 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 (4)

5 letter words (25)

4 letter words (42)

3 letter words (31)

2 letter words (11)

Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.