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BELTWAY

7 letters, 15 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What BELTWAY Means

  1. noun: a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

BELTWAY is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 15 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 E1 L1 T1 W4 A1 Y4.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 65 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In BELTWAY

128 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 (3)

5 letter words (11)

4 letter words (46)

3 letter words (50)

2 letter words (18)

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