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BORER

5 letters, 7 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What BORER Means

  1. noun: a drill for penetrating rock
  2. noun: any of various insects or larvae or mollusks that bore into wood

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

BORER 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 R1 E1 R1.

Words Made From The Letters In BORER

22 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 (7)

Longer Words Containing BORER

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

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