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CAIRN

5 letters, 7 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What CAIRN Means

  1. noun: a mound of stones piled up as a memorial or to mark a boundary or path
  2. noun: small rough-haired breed of terrier from Scotland

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

CAIRN is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as C3 A1 I1 R1 N1.

Anagrams of CAIRN (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In CAIRN

23 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 (8)

3 letter words (10)

2 letter words (5)

Longer Words Containing CAIRN

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

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