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BUTTERY

7 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What BUTTERY Means

  1. noun: a small storeroom for storing foods or wines
  2. noun: a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals
  3. adjective: unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech“buttery praise”
  4. adjective: resembling or containing or spread with butter“a rich buttery cake”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

BUTTERY is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 U1 T1 T1 E1 R1 Y4.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 62 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In BUTTERY

66 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 (2)

5 letter words (12)

4 letter words (19)

3 letter words (23)

2 letter words (10)

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