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AHEAD

5 letters, 9 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What AHEAD Means

  1. adverb: at or in the front“I see the lights of a town ahead”
  2. adverb: toward the future; forward in time“I like to look ahead in imagination to what the future may bring”
  3. adjective: having the leading position or higher score in a contest“he is ahead by a pawn”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

AHEAD is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as A1 H4 E1 A1 D2.

Anagrams of AHEAD (1)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In AHEAD

22 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.

4 letter words (4)

3 letter words (7)

2 letter words (11)

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