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CAFTANS

7 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What CAFTANS Means

CAFTANS is a form of CAFTAN, which means:

  1. noun: a woman's dress style that imitates the caftan cloaks worn by men in the Near East
  2. noun: a (cotton or silk) cloak with full sleeves and sash reaching down to the ankles; worn by men in the Levant

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

CAFTANS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as C3 A1 F4 T1 A1 N1 S1.

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 CAFTANS

63 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 (3)

5 letter words (7)

4 letter words (24)

3 letter words (21)

2 letter words (8)

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