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AVERAGE

7 letters, 11 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What AVERAGE Means

  1. adjective: approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value“the average income in New England is below that of the nation”
  2. adjective: lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered“average people”
  3. noun: a statistic describing the location of a distribution“it set the norm for American homes”
  4. noun: (sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

AVERAGE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as A1 V4 E1 R1 A1 G2 E1.

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

Words Made From The Letters In AVERAGE

70 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 (24)

3 letter words (24)

2 letter words (8)

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