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BRITTLE

7 letters, 9 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What BRITTLE Means

  1. adjective: having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped“brittle bones”
  2. adjective: lacking warmth and generosity of spirit“a brittle and calculating woman”
  3. noun: caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

BRITTLE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 R1 I1 T1 T1 L1 E1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 59 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Anagrams of BRITTLE (2)

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

Words Made From The Letters In BRITTLE

81 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 (5)

5 letter words (18)

4 letter words (29)

3 letter words (19)

2 letter words (10)

Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.