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BILGE

5 letters, 8 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What BILGE Means

  1. noun: water accumulated in the bilge of a ship
  2. noun: where the sides of the vessel curve in to form the bottom
  3. verb: cause to leak“the collision bilged the vessel”
  4. verb: take in water at the bilge“the tanker bilged”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

BILGE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 I1 L1 G2 E1.

Anagrams of BILGE (1)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In BILGE

20 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.

4 letter words (4)

3 letter words (11)

2 letter words (5)

Longer Words Containing BILGE

BILGE appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.

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