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AFFIXES

7 letters, 20 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What AFFIXES Means

AFFIXES is a form of AFFIX, which means:

  1. verb: stick or fasten to“affix the seal here”
  2. verb: add to the very end“He appended a glossary to his novel where he used an invented language”
  3. noun: a linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

AFFIXES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 20 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as A1 F4 F4 I1 X8 E1 S1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 70 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In AFFIXES

52 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 (5)

4 letter words (10)

3 letter words (22)

2 letter words (14)

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