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BOLES

5 letters, 7 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What BOLES Means

BOLES is a form of BOLE, which means:

  1. noun: a soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment)
  2. noun: the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

BOLES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 O1 L1 E1 S1.

Anagrams of BOLES (2)

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

Words Made From The Letters In BOLES

35 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 (11)

3 letter words (15)

2 letter words (9)

Longer Words Containing BOLES

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

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