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BURRING

7 letters, 10 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What BURRING Means

BURRING is a form of BURR, which means:

  1. noun: seed vessel having hooks or prickles
  2. noun: rough projection left on a workpiece after drilling or cutting
  3. verb: remove the burrs from

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

BURRING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 U1 R1 R1 I1 N1 G2.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 60 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In BURRING

59 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 (1)

5 letter words (7)

4 letter words (17)

3 letter words (26)

2 letter words (8)

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