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BATTEN

6 letters, 8 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What BATTEN Means

  1. noun: stuffing made of rolls or sheets of cotton wool or synthetic fiber
  2. noun: a strip fixed to something to hold it firm
  3. verb: furnish with battens“batten ships”
  4. verb: secure with battens“batten down a ship's hatches”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

BATTEN 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 T1 T1 E1 N1.

Words Made From The Letters In BATTEN

56 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 (1)

4 letter words (19)

3 letter words (23)

2 letter words (13)

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