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BADGE

5 letters, 9 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What BADGE Means

  1. noun: an emblem (a small piece of plastic or cloth or metal) that signifies your status (rank or membership or affiliation etc.)“they checked everyone's badge before letting them in”
  2. noun: any feature that is regarded as a sign of status (a particular power or quality or rank)“wearing a tie was regarded as a badge of respectability”
  3. verb: put a badge on“The workers here must be badged”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

BADGE 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 B3 A1 D2 G2 E1.

Anagrams of BADGE (2)

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

Words Made From The Letters In BADGE

31 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 (7)

3 letter words (14)

2 letter words (10)

Longer Words Containing BADGE

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

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