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BARREN

6 letters, 8 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What BARREN Means

  1. adjective: providing no shelter or sustenance“bare rocky hills”
  2. adjective: not bearing offspring“a barren woman”
  3. noun: an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation“the barrens of central Africa”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

BARREN is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 A1 R1 R1 E1 N1.

Words Made From The Letters In BARREN

53 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.

5 letter words (6)

4 letter words (16)

3 letter words (19)

2 letter words (12)

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