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ASCETIC

7 letters, 11 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What ASCETIC Means

  1. adjective: pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline“ascetic practices”
  2. adjective: practicing great self-denial“Be systematically ascetic … do … something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it”
  3. noun: someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

ASCETIC is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as A1 S1 C3 E1 T1 I1 C3.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 61 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Anagrams of ASCETIC (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In ASCETIC

101 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 (3)

5 letter words (11)

4 letter words (38)

3 letter words (35)

2 letter words (14)

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