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APPAL

5 letters, 9 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What APPAL Means

  1. verb: strike with disgust or revulsion“The scandalous behavior of this married woman shocked her friends”
  2. verb: fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised“I was horrified at the thought of being late for my interview”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

APPAL 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 P3 P3 A1 L1.

Anagrams of APPAL (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In APPAL

16 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 (5)

3 letter words (7)

2 letter words (4)

Longer Words Containing APPAL

APPAL appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.

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