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BEARING

7 letters, 10 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What BEARING Means

  1. noun: relevant relation or interconnection“those issues have no bearing on our situation”
  2. noun: the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies
  3. adjective: (of a structural member) withstanding a weight or strain

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

BEARING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 E1 A1 R1 I1 N1 G2.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 60 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.