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BIRCHED

7 letters, 15 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What BIRCHED Means

BIRCHED is a form of BIRCH, which means:

  1. noun: hard close-grained wood of any of various birch trees; used especially in furniture and interior finishes and plywood
  2. noun: any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark
  3. verb: whip with a birch twig
  4. adjective: consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

BIRCHED is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 15 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 I1 R1 C3 H4 E1 D2.

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 BIRCHED

91 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 (15)

4 letter words (34)

3 letter words (26)

2 letter words (12)

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