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BAULKED

7 letters, 14 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What BAULKED Means

BAULKED is a form of BAULK, which means:

  1. noun: the area on a billiard table behind the balkline“a player with ball in hand must play from the balk”
  2. noun: something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
  3. verb: refuse to comply

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

BAULKED is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 A1 U1 L1 K5 E1 D2.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 64 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In BAULKED

115 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 (4)

5 letter words (12)

4 letter words (48)

3 letter words (38)

2 letter words (13)

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