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BRACE

5 letters, 9 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What BRACE Means

  1. noun: a support that steadies or strengthens something else“he wore a brace on his knee”
  2. noun: two items of the same kind
  3. verb: prepare (oneself), often but not necessarily for something unpleasant or difficult
  4. verb: support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace“brace your elbows while working on the potter's wheel”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

BRACE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 R1 A1 C3 E1.

Anagrams of BRACE (3)

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

Words Made From The Letters In BRACE

30 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 (9)

3 letter words (13)

2 letter words (8)

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