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APANAGE

7 letters, 10 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What APANAGE Means

  1. noun: any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life“for thousands of years the chair was an appanage of state and dignity rather than an article of ordinary use”
  2. noun: a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family“bishoprics were received as appanages for the younger sons of great families”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

APANAGE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as A1 P3 A1 N1 A1 G2 E1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 60 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In APANAGE

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 (6)

4 letter words (17)

3 letter words (20)

2 letter words (10)

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