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BURQA

5 letters, 16 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What BURQA Means

  1. noun: a loose garment (usually with veiled holes for the eyes) worn by Muslim women especially in India and Pakistan“the Taliban forced all women to wear the burqa”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

BURQA is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 16 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 U1 R1 Q10 A1.

Words Made From The Letters In BURQA

14 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 (2)

3 letter words (8)

2 letter words (4)

Longer Words Containing BURQA

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

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