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BLACKER

7 letters, 15 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What BLACKER Means

BLACKER is a form of BLACK, which means:

  1. adjective: being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light“black leather jackets”
  2. adjective: of or belonging to a racial group especially of sub-Saharan African origin“a great people, a black people, … injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization”
  3. noun: the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
  4. noun: total absence of light“they fumbled around in total darkness”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

BLACKER 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 L1 A1 C3 K5 E1 R1.

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

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